The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . in every province, and, as all the inhab-itants of Attica were every summer forced to take of Alexandria. Its great effort was to unite thecontemplative mysticism of Eastern sages withthe accurate science of Greece; to combine, inshort, the two qualities—intellectual and moral,argumentative and spiritual—into a single har-monious whole; and whatever opinion may beformed of the success wh
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . in every province, and, as all the inhab-itants of Attica were every summer forced to take of Alexandria. Its great effort was to unite thecontemplative mysticism of Eastern sages withthe accurate science of Greece; to combine, inshort, the two qualities—intellectual and moral,argumentative and spiritual—into a single har-monious whole; and whatever opinion may beformed of the success which attended the experi-ment, it is not wonderful that so magnificent anaim attracted the desires and riveted the atten-tion of thoughtful and contemplative minds forages afterwards. (7) Sculpture and Painting. In the imitativearts of sculpture and painting, as well as in archi-tecture, it need hardly be said that Athens car-ried off the palm in Greece; yet, in all these, theAsiatic colonies vied with her. Miletus took thestart of her in literary composition, and, underslight conceivable changes, might have becomethe Athens of the world. But all details on thesesubjects would be here out of Mars Hit refuge in the few fortresses they possessed, orin Athens itself, the simple countrymen becametransformed into a hungry and profligate townrabble. (6) Intellectual Culture. From the earliesttimes the Ionians loved the lyre and the song, andthe hymns of poets formed the staple of Athenianeducation. The constitution of Solon admittedand demanded in the people a great knowledgeof law, with a large share in its daily adminis-tration. Thus the acuteness of the lawyer wasgrafted on the imagination of the poet. Theseare the two intellectual elements out of whichAthenian wisdom was developed, but it wasstimulated and enriched by extended political ac-tion and political experience. History and phil-osophy, as the words are understood in modernEurope, had their birth in Athens abo
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