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PREFACE
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All other acknowledgments will, I hope, be found in their due place in the book.
The difficulties with which I have had to contend have been rehearsed above, and I
have thought it right and just that they should be known. Painful and distressing as
these conditions were, they vanish from the horizon now that the work is done, and I
look back upon the scenes of labor behind me with unmixed pleasure and with deep grati-
tude, — gratitude first to the American School at Athens which, in 1889, when for nearly
ten years I had been occupied with official work here in England, should have given me
such brilliant opportunities of research in Greece and of direct association with an institu-
tion of learning belonging to my native home ; gratitude to the University of Cambridge
and to my own College here, in my adopted home, which allowed me to undertake Avork
officially associated with another country, gave me the necessary leave of absence, and
enabled me to retain the post in this University which I have now held continuously for
twenty-two years. I venture to think that this example of international comity and
generosity in the cause of science, of which I have been the immediate beneficiary, is not
only a significant instance and result of the uniting power of science and learning, but is
more directly an earnest of the confraternity of the two great English-speaking nations.
That it should be in the cause of Hellenic culture that this international and fraternal
spirit should manifest itself against the survival (if not revival) in our times of blind and
savage international alienation and hatred sounds like the faint echo to the pledge of
civilized humanity made in Athens more than two thousand years ago by Aeschylus in
the Eumenides. That great drama seems to me to glorify, with all the consummate skill
of artistic expression, the establishment of civilization and its laws, superseding the blind
spirit of savagery, hatred, and revengeful fury. By the intercession of the great goddess
of Wisdom is founded the Areopagus, the first court of law to embody the ideas of
human justice; the hounding Erinyes are converted into Eumenides; by the persuasive
and gladdening language of Reason, blending Truth and Beauty with Goodness, the
vindictive Furies are tamed and are given a home in the centre of civilized life, violet-
crowned Atbens; and, adopting the tuneful and joyous measure of Attic poetry, they
Ae^o/Aat HaAXaSos ^vvoiKiav.
CHARLES WALDSTEIN.
King's College, Cambridge, April 30, 1902.
the
PREFACE
XD.1
^
.<#
All other acknowledgments will, I hope, be found in their due place in the book.
The difficulties with which I have had to contend have been rehearsed above, and I
have thought it right and just that they should be known. Painful and distressing as
these conditions were, they vanish from the horizon now that the work is done, and I
look back upon the scenes of labor behind me with unmixed pleasure and with deep grati-
tude, — gratitude first to the American School at Athens which, in 1889, when for nearly
ten years I had been occupied with official work here in England, should have given me
such brilliant opportunities of research in Greece and of direct association with an institu-
tion of learning belonging to my native home ; gratitude to the University of Cambridge
and to my own College here, in my adopted home, which allowed me to undertake Avork
officially associated with another country, gave me the necessary leave of absence, and
enabled me to retain the post in this University which I have now held continuously for
twenty-two years. I venture to think that this example of international comity and
generosity in the cause of science, of which I have been the immediate beneficiary, is not
only a significant instance and result of the uniting power of science and learning, but is
more directly an earnest of the confraternity of the two great English-speaking nations.
That it should be in the cause of Hellenic culture that this international and fraternal
spirit should manifest itself against the survival (if not revival) in our times of blind and
savage international alienation and hatred sounds like the faint echo to the pledge of
civilized humanity made in Athens more than two thousand years ago by Aeschylus in
the Eumenides. That great drama seems to me to glorify, with all the consummate skill
of artistic expression, the establishment of civilization and its laws, superseding the blind
spirit of savagery, hatred, and revengeful fury. By the intercession of the great goddess
of Wisdom is founded the Areopagus, the first court of law to embody the ideas of
human justice; the hounding Erinyes are converted into Eumenides; by the persuasive
and gladdening language of Reason, blending Truth and Beauty with Goodness, the
vindictive Furies are tamed and are given a home in the centre of civilized life, violet-
crowned Atbens; and, adopting the tuneful and joyous measure of Attic poetry, they
Ae^o/Aat HaAXaSos ^vvoiKiav.
CHARLES WALDSTEIN.
King's College, Cambridge, April 30, 1902.
the