Nothing but what we have been accustomed to regard as design, intention, purpose, is sufficient to account for the fact, that the scheme of nature so completely corresponds to the understanding of man as to make it possible for him to command and claim all her possessions for his own.
Men will never accept such a happy coincidence as the work of chance. They will, by the very structure of their minds, believe that the scheme and the understanding, which, through the process of struggle and trial, grows into it, were intended, by the Great Author of both, the one for the other.
BREAD.
“The power that Greece had to throw out light is marvelous, even now that we have the example of France. Greece did not colonize without civilizing—an example that more than one modern nation might follow: to buy and sell is not all.
“Tyre bought and sold: Berytus bought and sold: Sidon bought and sold: Sarepta bought and sold. Where are these cities? Athens taught; and she is to this hour one of the capitals of human thought.
“The grass is growing on the six steps of the tribune where spoke Demosthenes: the Ceramicus is a ravine, half-choked with the marble dust which was once the palace of Cecrops: the Odeon of Herod Atticus, at the foot of the Acropolis, is now but a ruin on which falls at certain hours the imperfect shadow of the Parthenon: the temple of Theseus belongs to the swallows: the goats browse on the Pnyx. Still the Greek spirit lives: still Greece is queen: still Greece is goddess. A counting house passes away: a school remains.”