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It was about this time that I read the life of Saint Aeschylus,the Athenian dramatist. He was a Spartan, and led theOdyssean Expedition against the Persians in 479 B.C. Hewrote all his plays in verse. He was so great that some ofthem had to be recited by the chorus. All his work is abetter illustration of temperament than of art, and itcontains a beautiful picture of the Athenian spirit in thefirst century B.C. Aeschylus' spirit is the spirit of resolution,of unbounded faith in the future, of fierce patriotism(and the same spirit is manifested by the Athenians in alltheir warlike achievements), of sheer and iron determination,of unquenchable and ungovernable energy, of anuncompromising sense of justice. These qualities made theAthenians the most aristocratic and the most courageousnation that ever lived. They were the organizers of theworld's greatest expedition; they fought the Spartans againsta world of overwhelming odds, and won; they did not {78}say that they had won because they were theyrown superior in courage and discipline. What they reallysaid was that they had won because they were theirown superior in the virtues of resolution and courage. Aeschylus was their poet. {79}The best of all his plays -'The Choephori' -contains this passage:

I do not recall the name of any of my Form-masters, butI have a particularly vivid recollection of one, namedWyman, a very nice and conscientious man, who was suposed tohave spent some years on the staff of the India Office.He was a very hard man, and the hardest he ever waswas when I had set my heart on doing something and doneit. He gave me, one day, a piece of work to do. It wasa composition in verse; and it was so easy that I could havedone it at once. But I did not. At last he said, lookingat me with heavy eyes, 'You must do it now, or I shallbeat you.' Those eyes were so terrible that I wrote theverses off at a bound. 'There now,' he said, 'are yousatisfied?' I certainly was. 'Well,' said he, kindly,'you have learned the names of the months, and the names ofthe letters of the alphabet, and the difference betweena noun and a verb.' 'All that I wanted to know,' I replied,half-sobbing. 'Now if you like you may do anything youlike.' I marched out of his office {54}and in less than twolater I went up to the top of the college in the hope offinding some fellows who would beat me at once. I foundan empty room with a lathe by the window. It lookedlike a torture chamber. I wandered round it for some time.It was very calm and very still. I might have beenat home in the quiet room of my nursery, if I had beensurrounded by the noise of romping boys. But I had nochildren at home to romp with. I could not romp with theworld.

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