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Man issued from the womb of Mother Earth, but he knew it not, nor recognized her, to whom he owed his life.

Certain it is that each ancient civilization seemed to bear in itself the seeds of its own destruction.

Certain it is that each ancient civilization seemed to bear in itself the seeds of its own destruction.

It has been well said that a democracy is the strongest government for defence, the weakest for attack.

Greek civilization did ultimately decline. It represented intellectual, but not moral culture.

If you would understand the Greek spirit in its fullest perfection, study Themistocles. Rampant individualism, seeking personal pleasure, clamorous for the admiration of its fellows, but not restrained from secret falsity by any strong moral sense—that was what the Greeks developed in the end.

Neither must Athens be regarded as a democracy in the modern sense. She was only so by contrast with Persia or with Sparta

The ancient Etrurian (non-Aryan) civilization on which the Latins intruded, was apparently more advanced than their own.

In Rome, even more than in Sparta, the "State" was everything.

She settled her internal difficulties as all such difficulties must be settled, if the race is to progress; that is, she became more democratic.