OLD GREEK EDUCATION (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from Old Greek EducationAlthough, therefore, we cannot deny that past history contains many fruitful lessons for the bettering of our own time, it is not unlikely that the tendency Of the pre sent widely informed, but hasty, age is to exaggerate the likenesses of various epochs, and to overrate the force of canalogy in social and political reasoning. Historical parallels are generally striking only up to a certain point, a deeper knowledge discloses elements of contrast, wide differences of motive, great variations in human feeling.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works._,