"The name of Greece strikes home to the hearts of men of education in Europe, and more particularly is this so with us Germans … They [the Greeks] certainly received the substantial beginnings of their religion, culture … from Asia, Syria and Egypt; but they have so greatly obliterated the foreign nature of this origin, and it is so much changed, worked on, turned round and altogether made so different, that what they – as we – prize, know and love in it is essentially their own."