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Excerpt from An Odious Comparison, Vol. 18
If this is a real difference, and I believe it is, it may be questioned whether it is the part of a sound education to shun altogether the ancient simplicities and directnesses for the more impenetrable proprieties and complexities of a later world. In any case we must take our parallels where we find them, and I can find no such illuminating parallel to the outstanding features of the present cataclysm as' is found in Thucydid'es' account of the Peloponnesian War and particularly of the tragic career of Athens in the course of that war. The parallel has been noted more than once. Gilbert Murray has touched upon it in the preface to his translation of the Trojan Woman of Euripides; Irving Babbitt has mentioned it in a clever article in The Nation; and all students of Greek history must in these last years have read into the empty saying that history repeats itself a fulness of ominous verity.
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