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  Item Reference: KCLCAL-1927-1928-484

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SOME DEBTS TO BYZAXTIXISM XV almost Homeric character of the different Greek chieftains The narrative is full of picturesque descriptions of sites and scenery and shows that the writer had an eye for the archaeological and historical interest of the places through which he passed When it is better known it will certainly throw new light not only upon Sir Richard Church's personal efforts for Greek freedom but also upon nearly every phase of the closing years of the struggle It is perhaps not unfitting to close this discursive lecture with the name of an Englishman who whatever his faults may have been was in his own words one for whom the liberation of Greece had been the ruling passion of his life It is just hundred years ago that Church received his pressing invitation from Karaiskaki and other chiefs to come over tc Greece and help them and he did not lay aside his command till he saw his mission accomplished Whatever unity this lecture may possess will be due to the fact that the lecturer prefers the positive to the negative He believes that all periods of history have their inspiring qualities and that if Professor- ships have any value they should be directed in the main to showing that the epochs and peoples with whom they are concerned have accomplished things calculated to inspire rather than to depress and he trusts that some reinforcement may have been given to the saying of the far-away Greek philosopher Heraclitus "H thou hopest not thou wilt never find the unhoped for
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