Thursday, February 10, 2005
Ancient Literature
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Part I, Chapter XV:
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All who aspire to literary excellence in democratic nations ought frequently to refresh themselves at the springs of ancient literature; there is no more wholesome medicine for the mind. Not that I hold the literary productions of the ancients to be irreproachable, but I think that they have some special merits, admirably calculated to counterbalance our peculiar defects. They are a prop on the side on which we are in most danger of falling.
