Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-01-22

MoTELY BEFORE THE NEw YORK HISTORICAL
SOCIETY
| GREEK AND ROMAN CIVILIZATION.
There was once a cook in Athens Whether
he was skillfu or not in the kitchen is not known
hut he was swift on foot He ran a race at the
| olympic games, his name was the first to be re-
! corded AS victor in the archives of those festi
walls, and accordingly the subsequent history Of
| Greece with all her heroes, poets, sages, is Ie-
gstered from the OlymPaid in which CorGlus
won his race. Strangely enough, too, the date
| of this first registered Olympaid has sacred
bu familiar sound in cur ears. 1t was 776 be-
| foe Christ, no years after Christ another
| epoch was established, from which this great
epublic dates its records a day on which
equal rights were proclaimed as the heritage Of
mankind-a noblor era for the world than any
that cooks or racers are ever likely to establish
| At exactly the same period with Corwlus-as
chronologsts have settled it among themselves
here was a certain she-wolf an Italian swamp
! with a pair of human foster children. And As
| We have all read in the story books, the foster
,hildr. founded a city which has had much in
| fuence for good and evil upon the cause Of hu-
man progress. The orbit Of civilization, 80 far
| is our peIishing records enable US TO trace It,
Gems pre-ordained from east to west. China.
| India. Palestine, Egypt, Greece, Rome, are sue
eessiyely lighted up the majestic orb Of day
owes over them, and as he advances still furth-
-r through this storied and mysterious zodiac
We behold the shadows Of evening as surely fall
/ ing on the lands which he leaves behind him
Religion, poetry, aesthetic art have already en-
nobed the progress Of man. What would the
world have been without Palestine? What pres
ent idea Of human civilization would be possible
/ without the poetry and sculpture, the archtec-
| 'ure, the magnificent drama, the subtle, lofty,
| ,lmost divine philosophy Of Greece without
the impericu- and cruel uatioualism. the all-sur-
passing military art, the colossal self-esteem, the
cyuic miteriali-m the massive, sharply chiscllei
| Jurisprudence which made Rome the mistress of
| the world Dead Athens shines there forever
not a constellation, but a whole universe Of lus-
trc-with the milky way Of her exquisite, half
nebuious flle- with the pure starry light Of
her fixed and uuchlnging truths, illuminating
vast space. ot ob.curitv before and since her
brief mortal existence Rome, both in her mill
tary aud legal glory, and in her shameful crapu-
ou, decreuule, remains perpetual memory
% encourage human progress, and to warn from
the dangers o. luxury, ambition, AMI iuefable
lsllaiu Of human rights, by which she justly
reri.hcL And then came the wandering Of the
nations. the northern deiuge. Rome sank mis-
erttly beneath the glacial food, which, like that
iu early geological ages, had become necessary 10
the grand scheme Of civilization. Surely the R.
man world hal ucel nf -ubmergence and of ice.
And at last. a- the deuge subsidei. Germany
conquered Rome, and tine new civilization began
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