THIS MARCH OF GREEK LITERATURE.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1930, Page 3

THIS MARCH OF GREEK LITERATURE.

The ancient Greeks asked nearly all the important philosophical questions that have ever been raised, and asked them in most direct and simple form. In history a similar superiority is manifested in another way. Tim great advantages of ancient over modern history as an educational discipline are its remoteness and its completeness. We trace the whole course f a great enterprise in civilisation

We can see the whole story in due pro-•vu-tion and perspective The special advantage of the ancient literatures - -des partly in the fact that the sur-

'--ving works have passed through the sieve of men’s judgment in many generations, partly—as concerns the Dreeks at least—in that directness and unself-consciousness which makes the influence of Greek literature a conpurge of all that is sentimental or cheaply emotional. Above all. the • ks suprilv a standard of excellence .which is singularly pure artistically, end which also, just because of its antiquity, is a sure means of deliverance from all vulgar forms of the behef in rogress.”—Dr. Temple, Archbishop of A oi’k.”