the face is a confused of features but composed of sharply defined and features whose eye are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to and take glances on this side and on that but they must turn the whole head the manners of that period are plain and fierce the reverence exhibited is for personal qualities courage address self command justice strength swiftness a loud voice a broad chest luxury and elegance are not known a population and want make every man his own cook butcher and soldier and the habit of supplying his own needs the body to wonderful performances such are the and of and not far different is the picture gives of himself and his in the retreat of the ten thousand after the army had crossed the river in there fell much snow and the troops lay miserably on the ground covered with it but arose naked and taking an axe began to wood whereupon others rose and did the like throughout his army exists a boundless liberty of speech they quarrel for plunder they h t bt with the on each new order and is as sharp as any and than most and so gives as good as he gets who does not see that thb is a gang of great with such a code of honor and such discipline as great boys have the costly charm of the ancient tragedy and indeed of all the old literature is that the persons speak simply � speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it before yet the habit has become the habit of the mind our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old but of the natural the are not but perfect in their senses and in their health with the finest physical organization in the world acted with the simplicity and grace of children they made and statues such as healthy senses should � that is in good taste such things have continued to be made in all ages and are now wherever a healthy but as a class from their superior organization they have surpassed all they combine the energy of manhood with the engaging of childhood the attraction of these manners is that they belong to man and are known to every man in of his being once a child besides that there are always individuals who retain these a person of genius and energy m k still a greek and our love of the muse of i admire the love of nature in the in reading those fine to sleep to the stars rocks mountains and waves i feel time passing away as an sea i feel the eternity of man the identity of his thought the greek bad it seems the same fellow beings as l the sun and moon water and fire met bis heart precisely as they meet mine then the distinction between greek and english between and seems superficial and when a thought of becomes a thou t to me � when a truth that fired the soul of fires mine time is no more when i feel that we two meet in a perception that our two souls are tinged with the same hue and do as it were run into one why should i measure degrees of latitude why should i count egyptian years the student the age of chivalry by his own age of chivalry and the days of adventure and by quite parallel miniature experiences of his own to the sacred history of the world be has the same key when the voice of a prophet out of the of antiquity merely echoes to him a sentiment of hb infancy a prayer of his youth he then to the truth through all the confusion of tradition and the of it s rare extravagant spirits come by us at intervals who disclose to us new facts in nature i see that men of god have from time to time walked among men and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hence evidently the the priest the inspired by the divine and people they cannot unite h un to history or reconcile him with themselves as they come to their and to live their own piety explains every fact every word how easily these old of moses of of of themselves in the mind i cannot find any in them they are mine as much as theirs i have seen the first and without crossing seas or centuries more than once some individual has appeared to me with such of labor and such commanding contemplation a haughty begging in the name of god as made good to the century the the and the first the of the east and west of the and is in the private life the influence of a hard on a young child in his spirits and the understanding and x sat l that without producing indignation but fear and obedience and even much s with the � is a familiar fact explained to the child when he becomes a man only by seeing that the of his youth is himself a child over by those names and words and forms of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth the fact teaches him how was worshipped and how the were built better than the by of the names of all the workmen and the cost of every tile he finds and the of at his door and himself has laid the courses again in that protest which each considerate person makes against the superstition of his times be step for step the part of old and in the search after truth finds like them new perils to virtue he again what moral vigor is needed to supply the of a superstition a great on the heels of a how many times in the history 