The Legacy of GREECE
Essays by Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath,D’Arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee,A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
Edited by
R. W. LIVINGSTONE
OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
PRINTED IN ENGLAND AT THE
UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD
BY JOHN JOHNSON
PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
Transcriber’s Note
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In spite of many differences, no age has had closer affinities withAncient Greece than our own; none has based its deeper life so largelyon ideals which the Greeks brought into the world. History does notrepeat itself. Yet, if the twentieth century searched through the pastfor its nearest spiritual kin, it is in the fifth and followingcenturies before Christ that they would be found. Again and again, as westudy Greek thought and literature, behind the veil woven by time anddistance, the face that meets us is our own, younger, with fewer linesand wrinkles on its features and with more definite and deliberatepurpose in its eyes. For these reasons we are to-day in a position, asno other age has been, to understand Ancient Greece, to learn thelessons it teaches, and, in studying the ideals and fortunes of men withwhom we have so much in common, to gain a fuller power of understandingand estimating our own. This book—the first of its kind inEnglish—aims at giving some idea of what the world owes to Greece invarious realms of the spirit and the intellect, and of what it can stilllearn from her.
The Editor.
October 1921.
CONTENTS
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- THE VALUE OF GREECE TO THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD. By Gilbert Murray,F.B.A., Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford 1
- RELIGION. By W. R. Inge, D.D., Dean of St. Paul’s 25
- PHILOSOPHY. By J. Burnett, F.B.A., Professor of Greek in the Universityof St. Andrews 57
- MATHEMATICS AND ASTRONOMY. By Sir T. L. Heath, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., F.R.S.97
- NATURAL SCIENCE. By D’Arcy W. Thompson, F.R.S., Professor ofNatural History in the University of St. Andrews 137
- BIOLOGY. By Charles Singer, Lecturer in the History of Medicine inUniversity College, London 163...