{81} I mean particularly as regards his sweeping denunciation of the complete moral decadence of Greek society during the Peloponnesain War, which, from what remains to us of Athenian literature, we know must have been completely exaggerated. Or, rather, he is looking at men merely in their political dealings: and in politics the man who is personally honourable and refined will not scruple to do anything for his party. {86} Polybius, xii. 25. {124} As an instance of the inaccuracy of published reports of this lecture, it may be mentioned that all unauthorised versions give this passage as _The artist may trace the depressed revolution of Bunthorne simply to the lack of technical means_! {206} _The Two Paths_, Lect. iii. p. 123 (1859 ed.).