"Most beliefs about nature and man, which were not founded on scientific observation, have served directly or indirect…"

"Not long after his (Justinian) accession, he reaffirmed the penalties which previous Emperors had enacted against the…"

"Writing the history of the present is always a very different thing from writing the history of the distant past. The…"

"Polybius is not less express than Thucydides in asserting the principle that accurate representation of facts was the…"

"The Achaeans of north Greece, which was later to be called Thessaly, seem to have been the great sea-adventurers of t…"

"The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their langua…"

"Some people speak as if we were not justified in rejecting a theological doctrine unless we can prove it false. But t…"

"Socrates was the greatest of the educationalists, but unlike the others he taught gratuitously, though he was a poor …"

"Science has been advancing without interruption during the last three of four hundred years; every new discovery has …"

"The doubts that Mr. Balfour expressed nearly thirty years ago, in an Address delivered in Glasgow, have not, so far, …"