 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
 | 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... | |
 | Marinus Antony Wes - History - 1992 - 390 pages
...twentieth-century historian and exile Michael Rostovtzeff: “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?” 82 CHAPTER TWO PETRO PRIMO... | |
 | Bernard J. F. Lonergan - Education - 1993 - 332 pages
...46 In Men and Ideas he quotes Rostovtzeffs The Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire: ... the ultimate problem remains like a ghost, ever present and unlaid: Is it possible to extend higher civilization to the lower classes without debasing its standard and diluting its quality to... | |
 | Anthony James Boyle - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 356 pages
...a nuisance by many more'. 28 Rostovtzeff felt much the same disquiet. ‘Is not every civilization bound to decay as soon as it begins to penetrate the masses?' he asked.m Such writers did not argue, as does Lucan's Caesar, in, of all places, a speech addressed... | |
 | Johan Hendrik Jacob Van Der Pot - Philosophy - 1999 - 1020 pages
...problem remains like a ghost, even present and unlaid: 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?” (‘1925; 219571 541).... | |
 | Kentucky - 1926 - 460 pages
...diluting it to the vanishing point. And then follows the pessimistic query, "Is not every civilization bound to decay as soon as it begins to penetrate the masses?" The volume has the usual critical appendages, excellent indexes of names and subjects, and of papyri and... | |
 | Paul Johnson - History - 2001 - 884 pages
...monumental history of the economy of antiquity, asked: ‘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?' 66 But the view that the... | |
 | Werner Stark - Christian sociology - 1998 - 360 pages
...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... | |
 | Neville Morley - Civilization, Ancient - 2000 - 258 pages
...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 standards and diluting its quality to the vanishing... | |
 | Neville Morley - Civilization, Ancient - 2000 - 260 pages
...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 standards and diluting its quality to the vanishing... | |
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