“If Egypt offered ground for the germination of the seed of pagan education, Greece brought the plant to its seed- producing state; and Rome, acting as the wind with the thistle down, scattered pagan education broadcast. Of Rome we read: “it gathered into its arms the elements of Grecian and Oriental culture, and as its end drew nigh, it scatters them freely over the rest of Europe. Rome has been the bearer of culture to the modern world.” (E.A. Sutherland, Living Fountains and Broken Cisterns, 1900, p. 101)