Little journeys to the homes of eminent orators . PERICLES 25. REECE is a beautiful do not endure, yet theyare a part of life no less than thepractical deeds of the day. Theglory of Greece could not last; itslimit was thirty years—one gen-eration. The splendor of Athenswas built on tribute and conquest,and the lesson of it all lies in this:For thirty years Pericles turned the revenues of warinto art, beauty and usefulness. England spent more in her vain efforts to subjugatetwo little South African republics than Pericles spentin making Athens the Wonder of the World. If Cham-berla
Little journeys to the homes of eminent orators . PERICLES 25. REECE is a beautiful do not endure, yet theyare a part of life no less than thepractical deeds of the day. Theglory of Greece could not last; itslimit was thirty years—one gen-eration. The splendor of Athenswas built on tribute and conquest,and the lesson of it all lies in this:For thirty years Pericles turned the revenues of warinto art, beauty and usefulness. England spent more in her vain efforts to subjugatetwo little South African republics than Pericles spentin making Athens the Wonder of the World. If Cham-berlain and Salisbury had been the avatars of Periclesand Phidias, they would have used the nine hundredmillions of dollars wasted in South Africa, and the ser-vices of those three hundred thousand men, and donein England, aye! or done in South Africa, a work ofharmony and undying beauty such as this tired earthhad not seen since Phidias wrought and Pindar And another thing, the thirty thousand Englishmensacrificed to the God of War, and the ten thousand
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