Ruins of the Temple of Artemis at Sardis, in Asia Minor (Turkey). A modern re-creation of what the Temple might have looked like, in its glory. "Politicians of Western nations ought not to be eligible for election until they have travelled the ancient world. All the cities of the Graeco-Roman world have become slums. That pride which made Asia-Minor, in the words of Theodore Mommsen, “the promised land of municipal vanity” vanished with the Muslim conquest. Politicians should be made to see how easy it is for the constant sea of savagery, which flows forever around the small island of civilisation, to break in and destroy.
H.V. Morton on the Decline of Civilization
H.V. Morton on the Decline of Civilization
H.V. Morton on the Decline of Civilization
Ruins of the Temple of Artemis at Sardis, in Asia Minor (Turkey). A modern re-creation of what the Temple might have looked like, in its glory. "Politicians of Western nations ought not to be eligible for election until they have travelled the ancient world. All the cities of the Graeco-Roman world have become slums. That pride which made Asia-Minor, in the words of Theodore Mommsen, “the promised land of municipal vanity” vanished with the Muslim conquest. Politicians should be made to see how easy it is for the constant sea of savagery, which flows forever around the small island of civilisation, to break in and destroy.