ABSTRACT
THERE is no one to whom the history of Greece does not appear as a necessary chapter of the history of mankind. The modern democracies—rightly or wrongly—see the Greeks as forerunners, and admire them as the people through whom the type of the citizen first appeared in the world, the people who at the very outset gave incomparable splendour to the ideas of freedom and country. With still more justice must we own ourselves indebted to the Greeks for the higher forms of our intellectual activity, science, art, and letters.
