Excerpt from Harvard Essays on Classical Subjects<br><br>Such unity as these Essays aim to secure is of meces sity the larger unity Of sympathetic interpretation of certain aspects of the life and thought of classical an tiquity. Nor was a closer coherence desirable if the truest independence of the contributors was to be pre served. Two of the Essays touch at a common point, though but for a moment; and this coincidence was not to be avoided, as it is not to be deprecated, since ascet icism with its passion to subdue the turbulent senses, is inevitably linked with the yearning after immor tality which possessed some of the most earnest minds Of the ancient world.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.