Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Revival of Criticism: A Paper Read at the Meeting of the Classical Association at Oxford on May 17th, 1919
Whether Germany can or will go to school again remains to be seen. Be that as it may, an era closes with her downfall. Our concern is with the German period which has been. Two things by common consent have been causes of the German downfall; the effort to disestablish chance, reducing everything to mechanics. Chance may not be as great a goddess as the ancients held, but Agathon's dictum is never obsolete. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.