Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Athens

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  • What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. Instead of the city of the Violet Crown, a Lancashire village has expanded into a mighty region of factories and warehouses. Yet, rightly understood, Manchester is as great a human exploit; as Athens.

    Benjamin Disraeli (1863). “Coningsby, Or, The New Generation”, p.113
  • A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

    Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.113
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Benjamin Disraeli

  • Born: December 21, 1804
  • Died: April 19, 1881
  • Occupation: Former Leader of the House of Commons