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{197b} Polybius, i. 4, viii. 4, specially; and really pa.s.sim.
{198a} He makes one exception.
{198b} Polybius, viii. 4.
{199} Polybius, xvi. 12.
{200a} Polybius, viii. 4: [Greek].
{200b} Polybius resembled Gibbon in many respects. Like him he held that all religions were to the philosopher equally false, to the vulgar equally true, to the statesman equally useful.
{203} Cf. Polybius, xii. 25, [Greek].
{205} Polybius, xxii. 22.
{207} I mean particularly as regards his sweeping denunciation of the complete moral decadence of Greek society during the Peloponnesian War which, from what remains to us of Athenian literature, we know must have been completely exaggerated. Or, rather, he is looking at men merely in their political dealings: and in politics the man who is personally honourable and refined will not scruple to do anything for his party.
{211} Polybius, xii. 25.
{253} As an instance of the inaccuracy of published reports of this lecture, it may be mentioned that all previous versions give this pa.s.sage as The artist may trace the depressed revolution of Bunthorne simply to the lack of technical means!
{317} The Two Paths, Lect. III. p. 123 (1859 ed.).
{328a} Edition for Continental circulation only. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, vol. 4056. 1908 (August).
{328b} Edition for Continental circulation only. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, vol. 4056. 1908 (August).
