Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ... LECTURE I. THE PLACE OF ROME IN ARYAN CIVILIZATION. 1. Interest of the history of Eoman Literature in its connection with the destinies of Rome. 2. Subject of first two Lectures, (1) Place of Home in Aryan civilization, (2) the Latin race in Italy. 3. The Latin race Aryan; use of the term. 4. Original home of the Aryans between Aralo-Caspian basin and the Hindoo-Koosh Mountains. The river Oxus. 5. Sketch of Aryan life. The family; marriage; constitution. 6. Games; Poetry. 7. Thought; Religion; practical science. Poverty of Aryan astronomy. 8. Preparation of the Aryans for their great destinies. Their general character expressed by Sophocles (Antig, 353-375). 9. Aryan prerogative the free development of thought. Eeligious revolutions. Zoroaster; Buddha. Mahometanism. 10. Relation of the Western Aryans to Christianity. Character of the four great races, n. The Greeks; individual development. 12. The Romans; subordination and expediency. 13. The Cdte, a subject race; susceptibility. Greatness of French civilization explained. 14. The Germans; earnest self-consciousness. 15. Position in respect to Christianity. Greek speculation useful in defining doctrine. Roman organization; and Roman Law in Theology. Inheritance of the Papacy from the Empire. 16. Germanic races alone reformed. What the Reformation owed to the past, and what it omitted to gain from Rome. Present want of organized self-sacrifice in our Germanic civilization. 1. The subject of the following Lectures is the history of the Latin Language and Literature, as the great product and instrument of Latin civilization. The difficulties of the undertaking are obvious, yet it has attractions also of a peculiar kind. The subject has a wide and permanent interest for all Europeans of the...