The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-22
ATHENS QUEEN
Of ALL CITIES
Of THE EARTH
Ia Respect to Ancient Great.
ness and a Shrine for World
Treasures.

\ WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.-Athens,
capital Of Greece and the present
capital Of strenuous diplomacy, the
uncertainty OF whose future course
IL now engaging the breathless in
terest Of all bel1igerent. nations. is
described in the following statement
issued to the press today BY the Ma
tional Geographic Society:
Better fifty years OF Athens than
g cycle of Cathay, one writer phrases
1T, and, indeed, in respect to the
greatness Of Its past. the capital OF
the Hellenes Is queen among all OF
learth's cities. In this marvellous
tcity. a civilization was born and
made perfect and complete in the
course OF q few generations. It is
the foundation upon which rests the
modern culture Of the West; for
classic Athens Is Astill the teacher Of
the world and the final arbiter IN
things OF taste. s
Germs OF Philosophy.
out Of Plato. says Emerson,
come all things that are Still writ
ten and debated; among men of
thought. It is. at least, certain, that
all Of the germs Of philosophic
thought are to be found in the teach
|ings Of the Greek phil osophers who
sought their followings In Athens
down to the time Of Aristotle. In
poetry. Greek genius created the
forms and left models for all ages.
In sculpture and In architecture,
Grecian achievements still stand I'M
surpassed; and the ruins upon the
Acropolis suggest structural beauties
never since attained, while innumer-
able sculptured masterpieces Of the
Greeks fill alcoves in all the more
important museums in the world.
Such was the wealth Of sculptured
features in classic Athens, that one
ancient wag declared that It was
easier to ind god in the city OF
Pallas than man.
J. Dramas Still Models.
To Athenian Socrates, rather than
to any other savant before or after
him, belongs the honor Of haying
called into being that inductive, OPP
ductive. optimistic science, which to-
day forms the warp Of our civiliza-
tion. With the homely, keen-witted
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