The Rebirth of Europe - A Study of the Middle Age #250629

UR modern world, with its keener sense of spiritual values, and its finer conception of personal and national responsibility, differs from the old Roman world as much as if our race had been removed bodily to Jupiter or Saturn. As much? Better to say more: for with the merely physical transfer all the old ways and habits of thought would have been retained, and perhaps intensified; as was the case with the Greek colonists, who made their new homes in Asia even more Grecian than Athens itself.