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with a quotation from Ruskin regarding the \u201cgenius of the Greeks\u201d: \u201cthere is no dread in their hearts; pensiveness, amazement, often deepest grief and desolation, but terror never. Everlasting calm in the presence of all Fate, and joy such as they might win, not indeed from perfect beauty, but from beauty at perfect rest.\u201d <\/span> <\/p>\n Harrison comments sardonically that \u201cthe Greek, the favoured child of fortune yet ever unspoilt, was exempt from the discipline to which the rest of mankind has been subject, never needed to learn the lesson that in the Fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom.\u201d <\/span> <\/p>\n Ruskin shows that if there had been no Nietzsche, we\u2019d have to invent him. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jane Harrison begins her Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (Mythos Books) with a quotation from Ruskin regarding the \u201cgenius of the Greeks\u201d: \u201cthere is no dread in their hearts; pensiveness, amazement, often deepest grief and desolation, but terror never. Everlasting calm in the presence of all Fate, and joy such as they might […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classics"],"yoast_head":"\n
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