The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1882-06-09

careers Ntese magnificent .s,ses
futures wszs asl dazzling IS thss e burs
own country eIded % the I'll 81 rs
publics aid havs now either cease is ex.
ist 81 have sunk into petty Ibs1ertyi
stricken kingdoms whose assumpt i1hs of
freedom Are weIInigb ridicnloussl IN Is
is the down-falt of nations that plists Is
mystical love and coming enesf q III their
shadows before. Greece i Sns dDfBthose5
republics, where literature Al. islIed, and
the arts ard sciences reached ltheir highest
elimination, where HoWers rsIseh their
dewy heads, and their sweek psFluSne was.
waited BY southern breezss 5, tllle land.
scape, whose poetic beauty and rtfmarlce
have never failed TO call forth ihsll admir-.
alton Of visitors Being wei n Il sur-
rounded ~ Tie Meditenanean 81 Had
those facilities for the deyslobfaIsS t n
bold mountaineers and brave seARnaksl
two characters the best fitted ior I'll ds.1
fence Of national rights ard lbs sies
Athens. the fountain held 81 Gres was.
the center Of literary and scientific j. lture
She was 4 Republic whose ssFe g,
magni6cent and respl dent ST. ISL
ID Macedonia yet had tie psS sefl
Greece been combined she couf naYeI
resisted any invasion the world COZ then
have attempted. Then the questil are
asked why did she not resist inyasib n and
why did She fall. The causea are
these: First, the unrestrained TENDENCIES
Of human nature; Second, certain hinda-
mental defects in her constitution The
first cause was the evil consequences that
come upon state from the rapid in3 ease
of wealth. The rich sought, nior9 and
more the luxuries Of the orient, tlS 3reech
between the rich and poor yiidens The
poor sought BY every possible |ns to
gain such wealth as would rells them
from social degradation and 81 cisna,,
and in this way thegTpsses otErae were
perpetrated The second cause Msls the I
defect in the national constitution There
was nothing congenial. nor com be
tween them, they looked upon each fsther
with a jealous eye, envious Of eachk1lleIs
prosperity, and could be as easily 1el
to make war upon one another as
foreign foe; yet, they had many tfig
bind them together; the same la1giiagE,
the same religion, and their large eouilcils
that met every year, but even this could
not win the Greek from his sectional
views; and make him have that laxe land
zeal for his country that charactsr the
true and noble patziot. ThssoHi fhat|
has given als de long list d Must Iious
names. who have bee, models 81
EuioP l6 y, 900 years, produced sIso]|
evils tsak ihsIiy resulted = hsr'
So fell Greece, 4 monument III arice
and greed, whose poets have sung ~ the
renown Of Argos, and whose philosophers
predicted her perpetuity;; yet her poets,
for they were fine, her philosophers, for
they were famous, her arts, in which she
has had no equal, all these could not save
unhappy Greece from the fate that befell
her. H.
We pass from the Grecian states to the
republic of Carthage, and we find there
the same state of things Where are the
swift ships Of Carthage that once sailed
along the Grecian shores where Jason
sailed in search ofrthe golden fleece ?
Where are her warriors and her martial
heroesP Where is Carthage herself ?
Alas, her ships are sunken, her warriors
have persisted, and Carthage scrumbled
into dust centuries ago. Why did Car
thage fall situated as she was onsthe Med
iterranean, whose glittering waves crtsLed
and broke at the foot of her walls pn
whose swelling bosom hundredssof rs
rode at anchor, that trayersed ever "a
and carried her rich merchandise mt IS
tant lands, and while her destroye .e,
was yet in her infancy, She wa
powerful and wealthy, and, ernbrac by
a wide|sky, set full Of starry hopes md
consolidated visions Of futurity. But Me |
full moon waned at last, and in hSr ky,
with inverted horn, gave its sign q min.
No on marked thisEsign ofruin, and hey
I sported wantonly on the beach, feeling all
the destructive breeze from its pillows,
and clasped with opened arms the silver
serf that flowed in upon them, and finally