Points Of Friction

Excerpt: When Mr. Bagehot spoke his luminous words about ?a fatigued way of looking at great subjects,? he gave us the key to a mental attitude which perhaps is not the modern thing it seems. There were, no doubt, Greeks and Romans in plenty to whom the ?glory? and the ?grandeur? of Greece and Rome were less exhilarating than they were to Edgar Poe,?Greeks and Romans who were spiritually palsied b...