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Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 16:29:07 -0600
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From: Fred Zimmerman <fredz@mindspring.com>
Subject: "the savageness of man"
Cc: jsc2t@ascsa.edu.gr
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  On the night of Martin Luther King's assassination in April of 1968,
Robert Kennedy, running in the Indiana presidential primary, spoke to a
crowd of mostly blacks in Indianapolis, most of whom didn't know of the
shooting until he told them. In that extemporaneous speech, perhaps his
most eloquent, he closed by saying: "Let us dedicate ourselves to what the
Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and to make
gentle the life of this world." He did not attribute it specifically, and I
don't know where it comes from. Earlier in the speech he had quoted
Aeschylus: "In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon
the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through
the awful grace of God." Jules Witcover writes of the speech in 85 Days:
the Last Campaign of Robert Kennedy (New York, 1969), pp. 139-142.

Fred Zimmerman


At 07:54 AM 3/6/00 -0800, Linda Wright wrote:
>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 14:18:14 +0200
>From: Jenny Strauss Clay <jsc2t@ascsa.edu.gr>
>Subject: 
>
>Can anyone give me the source of this "old inscription" cited by Edith
>Hamilton in her book, The Ever-Present Past:
>
>An old Greek inscription states that the aim of mankind should be "to tame
>the savageness of man and make gentle the life of the world."
>
>Any leads?
>
>Thanks,
>JSC
>
>Jenny Strauss Clay
>American School of Classical Studies in Athens
>54 Suidias Street
>106-76 Athens
>Greece
>Phone:  30-1-722-7290 (h)
>                30-1-723-6313
>Fax:       30-1-725-0584
>Address e-mail to jsc2t@ascsa.edu.gr AND COPY to jsc2t@yahoo.com
>
>

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