 The ultimate problem remains like a ghost, ever present and unlaid. Is it possible to extend a higher civilisation to the lower classes without debasing its standard and diluting its quality to the vanishing point ? Is not every civilisation bound to...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 3471927Full view - About this book
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1927 - 1048 pages
...classes, and resulted in accelera ing the process of barbarization. But the ultimate problem remains Y\V a ghost, ever present and unlaid: Is it possible to extend a higher civiliz; tion to the lower classes without debasing its standard and diluting i quality to the vanishing... | |
 | Classical literature - 1928 - 342 pages
...have destroyed the up_per classes, and resulted in accelerating the process of barabarization. But the ultimate problem remains like a ghost, ever present and unlaid: Is it possible to extend a higher civilization to the lower classes without debasing its standard and diluting its quality to the vanishing... | |
 | M. Rostovtzeff - History - 1926 - 850 pages
...They have destroyed the upper classes, and resulted in accelerating the process of barbarization. But the ultimate problem remains like a ghost, ever present and unlaid : Is it possible to extend a higher civilization to the lower classes without debasing its standard and diluting its quality to the vanishing... | |
 | Economics - 1926 - 720 pages
...intellectual life, which we call the barbarisation of the ancient world." He ends on a note of pessimism—" Is not every civilisation bound to decay as soon as it begins to penetrate the masses ? " In this question it is a suffering Russian who speaks, but in America and in England there are... | |
 | Rhodes scholarships - 1927 - 226 pages
...They have destroyed the upper classes, and resulted in accelerating the process of barbarization. But the ultimate problem remains like a ghost, ever present and unlaid: Is it possible to extend a higher civil1zationto the lower classes without debasing its standard and diluting its quality to the vanishing... | |
 | William Wilson Cook - Aliens - 1927 - 424 pages
...the end. Rostovtzeff ends by asking (p. 487) whether it is possible " to extend a higher civilization to the lower classes without debasing its standard and diluting its quality to the vanishing point" and whether every civilization is "bound to decay as soon as it begins to penetrate the masses." He... | |
 | Catholic church in the United States - 1927 - 1122 pages
...They have destroyed the upper classes, and resulted in accelerating the process of barbarization. But the ultimate problem remains like a ghost, ever present and unlaid. Is it possible to extend a higher civilization to the lower classes without debasing its standard and diluting its quality to the vanishing... | |
 | Marinus Antony Wes - History - 1990 - 158 pages
...modern democracy is a guarantee of continuous and uninterrupted progress ...? Is not every civilization bound to decay as soon as it begins to penetrate the masses?" The quotations in this paragraph are taken from the final pages of Rostovtzeff s social and economic history... | |
 | Henry William Spiegel - Business & Economics - 1991 - 904 pages
...Our civilization will not last unless it be a civilization not of one class, but of the masses. . But the ultimate problem remains like a ghost, ever present and unlaid: Is it possible to extend a higher civilization to the lower classes without debasing its standard and diluting its quality to the vanishing... | |
 | Norman Jacobs - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1992 - 252 pages
...question with which Rostovtzeff concludes his magnum opus: "Is it possible to extend a higher civilization to the lower classes without debasing its standard...diluting its quality to the vanishing point? Is not every civilization bound to decay as soon as it begins to penetrate the masses?" Mr. Shils describes mass... | |
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