. The ephebic oath . ? There is but one question in modernpolitics, he says, though it appearsin many forms; and that is money With the exasperating sagacity of the unprac-tical man and dreamer, he added There is but one political remedy —the people should grow wiser and better. * IS THEEPHEBICOATH. And how? The word politics has to right-eous men or to those who take themselves asrighteous, a meaning that savors of unholi-ness. Yet the word means affairs of thecity; and to be busily engaged with theaffairs of the city should certainly be heldpraiseworthy and honorable. The soul of acity — ess
. The ephebic oath . ? There is but one question in modernpolitics, he says, though it appearsin many forms; and that is money With the exasperating sagacity of the unprac-tical man and dreamer, he added There is but one political remedy —the people should grow wiser and better. * IS THEEPHEBICOATH. And how? The word politics has to right-eous men or to those who take themselves asrighteous, a meaning that savors of unholi-ness. Yet the word means affairs of thecity; and to be busily engaged with theaffairs of the city should certainly be heldpraiseworthy and honorable. The soul of acity — essence of the place and people — cannever easily die. Mortals pass quickly fromthe sun lit way; but the spirit of a communitylives on forever. Athens, city of the violetcrown, aside from its time-touched templesof enduring beauty, lives in the memory ofmen because of lofty-minded sons who walkedand talked in olive groves of Akademe,\And it is the spirit of old Rome, the strife ofproud patrician and persistent plebeian that iseternal as the hills. 16 THEEPHEBICOATH
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