Excerpt from The Attitude of the Greek Tragedies Toward Nature Alex. V. Humboldt's views are given in his Cosmos, vol. II., p. 7. In Greek antiquity we find the tenderest expression of a deep feeling for nature mingled with poeti cal presentations of human passion but such descriptions Of nature are merely secondary, because in Greek art everything, so to speak, moves in the circle Of human life. Nature-poetry, as a special branch of literature, was wholly foreign to the Greeks; landscape with them appears only as the background Of a picture, in front of which move human forms. The Greek, according to v. Humboldt, possessed a deep feeling for nature, but lacked the active consciousness which prompts men to express that feeling in words.' 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.