The High School; A Study of Origins and Tendencies

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1916. Excerpt: ... VII SECONDARY EDUCATION IN ROME -- EARLY PERIOD Differences in race between Romans and Greeks.-- A psychological analysis of the Greeks and Romans reveals striking differences between them. Characteristics differ not merely in proportion, but in kind. The once reputed oneness of race breaks down even at a cursory glance. Some of the contrasts between the two peoples are brought out by the following comparison in which various characteristics are summarized. Contrasts in Greek and Roman Characters.1 Greeks2 Romans 1. Sophrosyne (temperantia). I. Virtus (fortitude, etc.). Arete (virtus), courage, Prudentia. Justitia. Tem love of country (spontan- perantia. Constantia. Hon eous but not deep). Eu- estas. Gravitas. Prosaic kosima (grace, esthetic ex- and practical ideas, pression in all lines). Energy, governing power, in Proportion, harmonious de- tense personality, conscious velopment of physical and worth; stronger elements of mental elements. character prominent. 2. Innate love of freedom and 2. Bound up intensely in social independence (free per- unit and its expansion, the sonality). Self assertion. state. Free and intense Development for individual, public life. Respect for primary, for state, secon- authority and established in dary. stitutions. 1 Compiled from different studies of the Greeks and Romans. Fortified from original sources and classical history. It is unnecessary, even impracticable, to give detailed references. Those familiar with the studies and authors will easily trace. These are general characteristics that became conspicuous as the two peoples developed. It will be interesting here to refer to Chapter I which gives some hints as to the origin of the differences between the two peoples. 2 See chapter IV, page so. Repeated here to facilitate contrast . Indi...