Excerpt from Literary and General Lectures and Essays

Let us think for a while upon what the Stage was once, in a republic of the past - what it may be again, I sometimes dream, in some republic of the future. In order to do this, let me take you back in fancy some 2314 years - 440 years before the Christian era, and try to sketch for you - alas! how clumsily - a great, though tiny people, in one of their greatest moments - in one of the greatest moments, it may be, of the human race.

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