Its effect upon modern art when properly appreciated 212 and upon every detail of our life 212 Greek literature hardly noticed in this Essay 213 Demands a good knowledge and study of the language 213 Other languages must be content to give way to this pursuit 214 The nature and quality of Roman imitations 215 The case of Virgil 215 Theocritus only a late flower in the Greek garden of poetry 216 APPENDIX. On the Authenticity of the Olympian Register 217 PROBLEMS IN GREEK HISTORY. CHAPTER I. OUR EARLIER HISTORIANS OF GREECE. [Sidenote: Definite and indefinite problems.] § 1. There are scientific problems and literary tasks which can be worked out once for all, or which, at least, admit of final solution, to the lasting fame of him that finds that solution, as well as to the permanent benefit of civilized man. There are others, more numerous and far more interesting, which are ever being solved, finally perhaps in the opinion of the discoverer, and even of his generation, but ever arising again, and offering fresh difficulties and fresh attractions to other minds and to newer generations of men. [Sidenote: Examples in theology and metaphysics.] I will cite the largest instances, as the most obvious illustration of this second class. The deep mysteries of Religion, the dark problems of Knowing and Being, which have occupied the theologian and the metaphysician for thousands of years, are still unsettled, and there is hardly an age of thinking men which does not attack these questions afresh, and offer new systems and new solutions for the acceptance of the human race. Nor can we say that in these cases new facts have been discovered, or new evidence adduced; it is rather that mankind feels there is more in the mystery than is contained in the once accepted explanation, and endeavours by some new manipulation of the old arguments to satisfy the eternal craving for that mental rest which will never be attained till we know things face to face. [Sidenote: Examples in literature.]