In the long bondage to the barbarian, the Hellenic spirit was weakened, but not broken.

This repression, removed at last, gave force and glow to Winckelmann's native affinity to the Hellenic spirit.

In each case the new invasion of the Hellenic spirit precedes, and is the handmaid of, the Hebraic.

Only Hellenic blood explains Hellenic countenances, yet easily found; the Hellenic language, yet wonderfully incorrupt; and the Hellenic spirit, omnipresent in liberated Greece.