"Ages are not taken at their own valuation by posterity, and the achievements which they view with most complacency often appear to their successors negligible or even ridiculous. It was so in Greece. Aeschylus expected to be remembered not as a poet, but as a combatant at . speaks as if the greatness of Athens lay in its empire. Much of which it is proud is forgotten by its successors. Much of which it is proud is forgotten by its successors. Whole epochs which were well satisfied with themselves are found in the sequel to matter nothing to the world, and to have made no contribution to its progress. Two hundred years hence our own age may be regarded as one that possessed, for its time, considerable material civilization but very little else, a substantial body and a soul which died from fatty degeneration,"
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(175 pages; reprint of 1st edition, Clarendon Press, 1935)
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Richard Livingstone
(23 January 1880 – 26 December 1960) was a British and ist. In 1931 he was made Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In 1948 he was elected an international member of the . He also received honorary doctorates from ten universities.
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