Debt to Greeks
Sir, —An article on increasing local interest in studying ancient Greece says pupils find it “interesting to see where our society started and what we’ve developed from the Greeks.” I believe our debt to the Greeks has been exaggerated, and our debt to the first Persian Empire, with its Zoroastrian religion, underestimated. Zoroaster’s concept of a supreme god who was purely good, coupled with the humanity and greatness of Cyrus, the founder of the empire, brought the concept of benevolent government and practical idealism into the world. Our Government, whose policies are bankrupting hard-working farmers, could learn from Cyrus, who about 538 B.C. said: “The greatest evils are two: that the ploughman who draws food from the earth should starve, and that the man of strength should take the possessions of the weak without labour of his own. I have set my face against those evils.” — Yours, etc., MARK D. SADLER. June 5, 1989.
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