Essays and Addresses (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Gilbert Murray

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330341066 ISBN 13 : 9781330341063

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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And whatever his subject is, his experience of it will be an invaluable help to him in understanding matters outside it, and will probably here and there enable him to see some things which people with a different experience have failed to see. Of course it will also to some extent mislead him; that is inevitable. It will, in spite of all vigilance, give a bias or a colour to his conceptions. For good and evil, the present writer is a grammaticus and in particular aG reek student. His special form of experience and the point of view to which it leads are given in the first paper, Religio Grammatici. Starting from some study of letters as the record made by the human soul of those moments of life which it has valued most and most longs to preserve, he makes his attempt to understand its present adventures and prospects. The next three essays deal more or less directly with Greek subjects, or rather with the light thrown by particular phases of Greek experience upon modern problems of society and conduct and literature. Then the connexion with Greece becomes slighter, and by the end of the book we are dealing directly with modern questions. Most of the papers are recent. One only is twenty years old. The address on National I deals has been included here after some hesitation because, in spite of a certain crudity and perhaps ferocity of tone, it seemed to me that its expression of the feelings of theL iberal minority during theB oer War afforded an interesting parallel to the feelings of the same minority twenty years later, at the close of the Great War. I will not lay stress on the similarities nor yet on the differences, except one :that now there is a League of Nations and then there was not. To a present-day reader the last half-desperate pages of that paper seem almost like a conscious argument for the foundation of a League of Nations ;but of course at
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330341066
• ISBN 13: 9781330341063
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 228
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