Greek Lands and the Greek People

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Excerpt from Greek Lands and the Greek People: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford, November 11 1910It would betray very partial apprehension of the subject if I were to confine our inquiry to periods which precede the 'great age' of Hellas. And even were I to do so, we should not be allowed to forget that there is still a Greek people, and that it is still making history in the Aegean world, still displaying in rather disconcerting Ways something of the old knack of seeing things not quite as others see them, still ardent in pursuit of ideals great and small, in defiance of what we dfiapot call common sense in their faults, as in their virtues, o'tei waibes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.