...velopment and greatness. Look, he said, at Greece. There is the same fertile soil, the same blue sky, the same inlets and harbors, the same Aegean, the same Olympus; there is the same land where Homer sung, where Pericles spoke; it is the same old Greece — but it is living Greece no more. He pictured its ruin of art and civilization, and traced that ruin to the downfall of their instituti...