Excerpt from The Georgics and Eclogues of VirgilPity and hope being thus the saving elements among the thin conventionalities of the Eclogues, Virgil retains them in the Georgics but transforms them through the addition of sterner stuff. In the Georgics toyland has disappeared, the realities of the country claim attention. Nor do we hear any thing more of a Utopia, a blessed condition to be dreamed of until some day it appears. Virgil's maturer mind is fixed on the process by which salvation from evil may be secured. It is a process which requires full cooperation between the indi vidual and the State.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.