What Have the Greeks Done For Modem Civilisation?

An excerpt from the Introductory.
...I do not suppose that any of you will be disposed to dispute the fact (which the very title of these lectures presupposes)-that modern civilisation, from various points of view, owes a great debt to the old Greeks. If there be any such sceptic here, I trust he will be converted in the course of my conversation with him from this platform. But even to those who readily admit the fact, explicit proofs of it may not be useless, for they will show you the rea...