Excerpt from Our Debt to Great Britain Now, the great Apostle inherited these Opinions. They had been taught him in the schools. He had boasted of them in his youth. But, with growing years, he had a widening experience. He traveled. He saw something of other civilizations. He learned the beauty that was Greece; he perceived the grandeur that belonged to Rome. In his missionary journeyshe came to have an appreciation Of the rugged virtues that ennobled the barbarians, as they were called, of Asia Minor. Out Of the dark pit Of his prejudices and provincialism he climbed Up into the sunlight Of a citizenship Of the world! Taught by hard experience, enlightened by long intercourse with other lands, he learned how much his country and his people owed to sister civilizations that lay beyond the sea. I am debtor, he acknowledged, both to the Greeks and the barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.