The consistency which is prized in a savant is pedantry if applied to
the Greeks.


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(THE GREEKS AND THE PHILOLOGISTS.)


THE GREEKS. THE PHILOLOGISTS are ·

render homage to beauty, babblers and triflers,
develop the body, ugly-looking creatures,
speak clearly, stammerers,
are religious transfigurers filthy pedants,
of everyday occurrences,
are listeners and observers, quibblers and scarecrows,
have an aptitude for the unfitted for the symbolical,
symbolical,
are in full possession of ardent slaves of the State,
their freedom as men,
can look innocently out Christians in disguise,
into the world,
are the pessimists of philistines.
thought.


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Bergk's "History of Literature": Not a spark of Greek fire or Greek