Excerpt from The Open Court, Vol. 35: A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to the Science of Religion, the Religion of Science, and the Extension of the Religious Parliament Idea; July, 1921 This contact with various institutions of his state impressed upon the youth the moral standards of his state and its people, nor was there any more potent or subtle channel or religious influence than that which came through the city life. Athens was decorated from end to end, in the market place, in the theater, at the street crossings, with images and shrines of its gods. Sacred rites attend ed all public occasions and public meetings of every sort opened with some act of public worship. 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.