Latinity is moribund, as Greece itself was when it transmitted to the rest of the world the seeds of its own rationalism; [so] there is the more need of transplanting and propagating straight thinking among the peoples who hope to be masters of the world in the immediate future.

Otherwise they will be its physical masters only, and the Muses will fly over them to alight among some future race that may understand the gods better. (To William James, Easter 1900)