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Ernst Na ch manson
the world, mistrusting Reason, weary of
argument and wonder, flung itself
pas-sionately under the speil of a system o f
authoritative Revelation, which claimed a
censorship over ali Truth, and stamped
free questioning as sin. And who was to
preach the old Beauty, earnest and frank
and innocent, to generations which had
long ceased to see it or to care for it?
The intellect of Greece died ultimately of
that long discouragement which works
upon nations like slow poison. She ceased
to do her mission because her mission
had ceased to bear fruit. And the last
great pagans, men like Plotinus, Longus,
and Julian, pronounce their own doom
and plead for their own pardon, w hen
they refuse to strike new notes or to try
the ring of their own voices, content to
rouse mere echoes of that old cail to Truth,
to Beauty, to Politicai Freedom and
Justice, with which Greece had awakened
the world long ago, when the morning
was before her, and her wings were strong.
P ortalen i St. John’s College,
Oxford.
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