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Excerpt from The Book of History, Vol. 7: A History of All Nations From the Earliest Times to the Present With Over 8000 Illustrations
Reek and Roman civilisations are two component parts of one great whole. Politically the form of state and the ideas of government which we meet in Greece and Italy are substantially the same. Greek literature, art, and science survived with abundant vitality through out the period which we roughly call Roman; in half of the Roman empire Greek was the universal language, and every educated Roman Of the later period spoke and wrote Greek almost as easily as Latin. Roman literature was modelled upon Greek every Roman poet thought it a matter of duty to imitate some Greek original. The Christian fathers wrote both in Greek and Latin, and thus Chris tian thought was passed on into the Middle Ages strongly tinged with both Greek and Roman ideas.
Yet Rome was very far from being merely an outgrowth of Greece. Rome grew from her own root, and Greek ideas were grafted on to her stock only after it had attained a certain maturity of its own.
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