Her thinkers, her poets, her scientists had draws their inspiration from nature, not civilization.

Her art had sprung full grown out of the soil.
We had never surpassed it.
"But the Greek ideal could not have been the right one, or Greece would not so utterly have disappeared," suggested Mr.Allway.

"Unless you reject the law of the survival of the fittest." He had no qualms about arguing with his uncle.
"So did Archimedes disappear," he answered with a smile.

"The nameless Roman soldier remained.

That was hardly the survival of the fittest." He thought it the tragedy of the world that Rome had conquered Greece, imposing her lower ideals upon the race.