A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD - 23

by H. G. Wells in English Classic Stories

XXIII THE GREEKS Now while after Solomon (whose reign was probably about 960 B.C.) the divided kingdoms of Israel and Judah were suffering destruction and deportation, and while the Jewish people were developing their tradition in captivity in Babylon, ...Read Moregreat power over the human mind, the Greek tradition, was also arising. While the Hebrew prophets were working out a new sense of direct moral responsibility between the people and an eternal and universal God of Right, the Greek philosophers were training the human mind in a new method and spirit of intellectual adventure. The Greek tribes as we have Read Less