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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Federal Union , the John Fiske (search)
Federal Union, the John Fiske
(q. v.), the eminent historian, contributes the following essay, originally delivered as a lecture in London, England:
The great history of Thucydides, which after twenty-three centuries still ranks (in spite of Mr. Cobden) among our chief text-books of political wisdom, has often seemed to me one of the most mournful books in the world.
At no other spot on the earth's surface, and at no other time in the career of mankind, has the human intellect flowered with such luxuriance as at Athens during the eighty-five years which intervened between the victory of Marathon and the defeat of Aegospotamos.
In no other like interval of time, and in no other community of like dimensions, has so much work been accomplished of which we can say with truth that it is kth=ma e\z a)ei\ —an eternal possession.
It is impossible to conceive of a day so distant, or an era of culture so exalted, that the lessons taught by Athens shall cease to be of value, or that
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hopkins , Stephen 1707 -1785 (search)