86 BOEKBESPREKING. 
„No really able man can ever be idle (p. 75.) 
„The supreme test of ability is its capacity to receive, make 
use of and rise superior to the wisdom with which it is surroun- 
ded.... when a man of elevated position surrounds himself with 
those of inferior capacity, his own action at once condemns him 
and makes known his true worth” (p. 76). 
„Every member of his (Alexander the Great's) family was mur- 
dered — and talent is hereditary!” (p. 79). 
„Among people of pure race mental force is no more confined 
to one class than is bodily strength” (p. 88). 
„In the popular meetings in the forum, free speech was not 
permitted in early Rome. The meeting could accept or reject a 
proposal; debate was strictly limited by the presiding officer and 
amendment was not allowed. The demagogue was not encouraged” 
(p. 88). 
„Ihe Greek cities almost uniformly seemed to prefer foreign 
dominion to reciprocal concessions and concord. Individualism 
gone mad!” (p. 89). 
„The whole advancement of the world has depended on the 
driving power of a comparatively few great minds” (p. 96). 
„Cato had voiced the accepted and the right idea that in mar- 
riage one should „look to good descent” (p. 101). 
„Ihe Roman story, on which so much moralizing has been 
based, is, in point of fact, a revolting tale of infamy (p. 105). 
„Greece wasted away. Scarce a remnant of the old blood was 
left. Her history continues, but it is no longer Greek history” 
(p. 106). 
„Like every great genius, Sulla lived a paradox and died an 
enigma (p. 120). 
„By means of the negro vote we plundered the South as Rome 
plundered the provinces” (p. 125). 
„Our responsibilities begin with us and never die” (p. 127). 
„The trifling amount of Roman philosophy was shorn of all 
attempt to study natural science... The first sun-dial set up in 
Rome was made for a place four degrees away, and the Romans 
did not find it out for a hnndred years” (p. 129). 
„A republic is a state of mind” (p. 135). 
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