Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Address at Annual Banquet of Minnesota Commandery Military Order of the Loyal Legion, 1901
Clasped in the embrace of shining centuries that gave model and masterpiece of art, poetry, philosophy, laws and eloquence, lie the annals of queenly Athens and exultant Rome. But viewed from our long focal distance how provincial, how isolated, how evanescent. The higher classes were luxurious, but the common people had fewer comforts than the beasts that perish. Freedom and civilization starved because they thrustno rootlets into the popular intellect. Even the tid ings of those glories and achievements scarcely reached beyond the' walls of cities which girt the Mediterran ean like a. Constellation.
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