What Have the Greeks Done for Modern Civilisation? the Lowell Lectures of 1908-09

What Have the Greeks Done for Modern Civilisation? the Lowell Lectures of 1908-09 PDF

Author: John Pentland Mahaffy

Publisher: Andesite Press

Published: 2017-08-21

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9781375883733

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What Have the Greeks Done for Modern Civilisation?; the Lowell Lectures Of 1908-09

What Have the Greeks Done for Modern Civilisation?; the Lowell Lectures Of 1908-09 PDF

Author: Sir John Pentland Mahaffy

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9781230280622

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... VIII HIGHER THINKING, PHILOSOPHY, SPECULATIVE AND PRACTICAL THEOLOGY T N my last lecture I spoke of the small effect, or want of effect, which a mere intellectual training in the liberal arts might have upon the average morals of a large society. To-day I propose to take you into a higher atmosphere, and consider what occupied the elite of Greek society in their advanced education, and in their speculations on the nature of things. You must not underrate the enormous advantages the well-born youth then possessed in training his mind, as compared with the youth of to-day. In the first place, a very moderate income would keep a household in comfort, and remove all the grinding care which, in this our modern life with its myriad exigencies, torments so many respectable families. In the next place, the demon of competition had not invaded these states, nor was it possible to do as I and many others have done, to be a slave for some years in order to obtain a competence by passing first in a single examination. In the third place, there was no object in travelling long distances. What was worth seeing, lay within easy reach. In modern life there is only Holland, and perhaps Northern Italy, which offers the same delights within short distances. The huge amount of time spent by Americans in travelling is perhaps one of the most serious obstacles to their intellectual advancement. If North America were compressed into one tenth its size, its inhabitants might gain some leisure for better education. The obvious thing that will strike any intelligent American, who has only heard of Plato, and wants to make his acquaintance through Jowett's noble translation, is the amount of time these Dialogues waste in arriving at a conclusion. Nay often they...

What Have the Greeks Done for Modern Civilisation?

What Have the Greeks Done for Modern Civilisation? PDF

Author: John Pentland Mahaffy

Publisher:

Published: 2016-06-14

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9781332602087

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Excerpt from What Have the Greeks Done for Modern Civilisation?: The Lowell Lectures of 1908-09 If this little book may help toward this great reformation, it will have amply succeeded in its purpose. I must not send it out without thanking my many American friends for their sympathy and encouragement. During my visit, everybody seemed ready to hear what I had to say, and in some of the discussions which were the result, notably at Philadelphia, there seemed to be quite a body of Opinion in my favour. Two observa tions are worth making here before I conclude: The American professors of Greek and Latin have exactly the same experience that we have in Ire land regarding the abandonment of Greek while professing to retain Latin. Neither there nor in Ireland have we failed to note the deterioration of Latin teaching, and the conviction grows upon us that a teacher who knows no Greek cannot be a Latin scholar in any real sense. So much for the boasted retaining of Latin while sacrificing Greek. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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