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Gilbert Murray, 'The Civilization of the Nineteenth Century: Its Greatness and the Flaw which led to its Collapse', The Ordeal of This Generation: The War, the League and the Future (1929), p. 51
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[T]he Victorian Age... cared more for life than for thought; consequently it produced abundant and fine life, while its thought was comparatively unambitious and aimed mainly at serving the practical purposes of life. It cared intensely for morals and little for metaphysics; a good deal for religion and scarcely at all for theology... It had an immense faith, a faith in goodness, in duty, in the future of mankind.

— Gilbert Murray on Victorian era

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[T]he Victorian Age... cared more for life than for thought; consequently it produced abundant and fine life, while its thought was comparatively unambitious and aimed mainly at serving the practical purposes of life. It cared intensely for morals and little for metaphysics; a good deal for religion and scarcely at all for theology... It had an immense faith, a faith in goodness, in duty, in the future of mankind." in the context of "Gilbert Murray, 'The Civilization of the Nineteenth Century: Its Greatness and the Flaw which led to its Collapse', The Ordeal of This Generation: The War, the League and the Future (1929), p. 51" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Gilbert Murray

George Gilbert Aimé Murray, OM, FBA (2 January 1866 – 20 May 1957) was an Australian-born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many spheres. He was an outstanding scholar of the language and culture of Ancient Greece, perhaps the leading authority in the first half of the twentieth century. He is the basis for the character of Adolphus Cusins in his friend George Bernard Shaw's play Major Barbara, and also appears as the chorus figure in Tony Harrison's play Fram.