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Excerpt from Greek Thinkers, Vol. 1: A History of Ancient Philosophy
Sguth. Her back is turned to the north and west, with their semi-barbaric conditions. Another circumstance Of quite exceptional good fortune may be ranged with these natural advantages. There was Greece in her infancy on the one side, and the immemorial civilizations on the other: who was to ply between them? The link was found-as it were by deliberate selection - in those hardy adventurers of the sea, the merchant-people of Phoenicia, a nation politically of no account, but full Of daring and eager for gain. Thus it happened that the Greeks acquired the elements of culture from Babylon and Egypt without paying the forfeit of independence. The benefits of this ordinance are obvious. The favoured country enjoyed a steadier rate of progress, a more unbroken evolution, a comparative immunity from the sacrifice of her national resources. And if further proof be required, take the fate of the Celts and Germans, whom Rome enslaved at the moment that she civilized; or take the sad lot of the tribes of to-day, who receive the blessing, of.
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