CHAPTER XXIV.

_CONCLUSION._

Sculpture, the Greek Art _par excellence_.--Plastic Character of the Greek Genius.--Sterner Aspects of Greek Art.--Subordination of Pain and Discord to Harmony.--Stoic-Epicurean Acceptance of Life.--Sadness of Achilles in the _Odyssey_.--Endurance of Odysseus.--Myth of Prometheus.--Sir H. S. Maine on Progress.--The Essential Relation of all Spiritual Movement to Greek Culture.--Value of the Moral Attitude of the Greeks for us.--Three Points of Greek Ethical Inferiority.--The Conception of Nature.--The System of Marcus Aurelius.--Contrast with the _Imitatio Christi_.--The Modern Scientific Spirit.--Indestructible Elements in the Philosophy of Nature. Page 391

THE GREEK POETS.