ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATI0:M in EUEOPE EVANS. 445 



The Roman Empire, which in turn appropriated the heritage that 

 Greece had received from Minoan Crete, placed civilization on a 

 broader basis by welding together heterogeneous ingredients and 

 promoting a cosmopolitan ideal. If even the primeval culture of 

 the Reindeer Age embraced more than one race and absorbed ex- 

 traneous elements from many sides, how much more is that the case 

 with our own which grew out of the Greco-Roman ! Civilization in 

 its higher form to-day, though highly complex, forms essentially a 

 unitary mass. It has no longer to be sought out in separate lumin- 

 ous centers, shining like planets through the surrounding night. 

 Still less is it the property of one privileged country or people. 

 Many as are the tongues of mortal men, its votaries, like the im- 

 mortals, speak a single langaiage. Throughout the whole vast area 

 illumined by its quickening rays, its workers are interdependent 

 and pledged to a common cause. * * * 



