Though herself, through the tyranny of the ephors, the unconscious puppet of the democratic action, she recoiled from all other and more open forms of democracy as from a pestilence.

The simple habits of the Spartan life assisted to confirm the Spartan prejudices.

A dinner, a fine house, these sturdy Dorians regarded as a pitiable sign of folly.

They had no respect for any other cultivation of the mind than that which produced bold men and short sentences.

Them, nor the science of Aristotle, nor the dreams of Plato were fitted to delight.