Word: periclean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Liberalism, as an attitude of mind, goes back at least to Periclean Athens. Liberalism, as a political philosophy, is scarcely 100 years old. It is practically impossible to snare it in a neat net of definition. But its manifestations are everywhere. Its vigor, says Author Orton, is proved by the roster of its raging enemies. Among them he lists: Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Pope Pius IX, Professor Harold Laski. "Dogmatists and determinists of the red or the black, defenders of the tyranny of men or majorities, exponents of class war, racial war, or national war, have discovered beneath their differences...
...summer, men will be able to study the classics without a knowledge of Latin and Greek. In what may prove to be one of the deepest results of the war on Harvard education, the Classics Department will begin to offer courses on such topics as "Athenean Democracy in the Periclean Age" with reading entirely in English. By this type of antiquity more available to the student not interested in devoting his College career to the classics...