Further，we provide plenty of means for the mind to refresh itself from business. We celebrate games and sacrifices all year round，and the elegance of our private establishments forms a daily source of pleasure and helps to banish the spleen; while the magnitude of our city draws the produce of the world into our harbor, so that to the Athenian the fruits of other countries are as f***liar a luxury as those of his own.
If we turn to our military policy, there also we differ from our antagonists. We throw open our city to the world, and never by alien acts exclude foreigners from any opportunity of learning or observing, although the eyes of any enemy may occasionally profit by our liberality; trusting less in system and policy than to the native spirit of our citizens; while in education,where our rivals from their very cradles by a painful discipline seek after manliness，at Athens we live exactly as we please, and yet are just as ready to encounter every legitimate danger. In pr