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mental   world;  all   the   hoarded treasures of its  primeval   dynasties;  all the 

shapeless ore of its yet unexplored mines。                 This is the gift of Athens to 

man。      Her   freedom  and   her   power   have   for   more   than twenty  centuries 

been     annihilated;     her   people    have    degenerated      into   timid   slaves;    her 

language into a barbarous jargon; her temples have been given up to the 

successive       depredations      of   Romans;      Turks;    and    Scotchmen;       but   her 

intellectual empire is imperishable。              And when those who have rivalled 

her greatness shall have shared her fate; when civilisation and knowledge 

shall have fixed their abode in distant continents; when the sceptre shall 

have   passed   away   from   England;   when;   perhaps;   travellers   from   distant 

regions shall in vain labour to decipher on some mouldering pedestal the 

name   of   our   proudest   chief;   shall   hear   savage   hymns   chaunted   to   some 



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             THE MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS AND SPEECHES OF LORD MACAULAY 



misshapen idol over the ruined dome of our proudest temple; and shall see 

a   single   naked   fisherman   wash   his   nets   in   the   river   of   the   ten   thousand 

masts;her   influence   and   her   glory   will   still   survive;fresh          in  eternal 

youth;   exempt   from   mutability   and   decay;   immortal   as   the   intellectual 

principle     from    which     they    derived    their   origin;   and    over   which     they 

exercise their control。 



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