K.0. Dhamras: "H Ellada brisketai anamesa se duo megalous

politismikous ogkous, pou 3exwrizoun panta, oso ki an oi tropes

ths istorias tuxainei na prokalesoun metatopiseis. H Anatolh kai

h Dush smigoun epanw sta ellhnika edafh, pou ginontai etsi ena

staurodromi opou adiakopa sugkrouontai duo prwtarxikes morfes

politismou. Progefurwma kai tou enos kai tou allou politismou

stis anti0etes dieu0unseis tous, o ellhnikos xwros dokimas0hke

polles fores apo thn katakthsh. Omws ekeino pou einai to drama

ths fulhs mas, einai kai mia apo tis do3es ths apo thn apopsh thn

polismikh: o ellhnismos dex0hke me ton tropo auton plousies kai

poikiles epidraseis, pou prokalesan thn ididotupia tou. H 0esh

tou anamesa se politismous pou ton ephreazoun, tou epetrepse

aneka0en na ekmetalleu0ei tis idiothtes tou, na askhsei thn

afomoiwtikh tou dunamh. E3 allou h gegrafikh 0esh tou ellhnismou

den einai api0ano na epefere ki ena allo sta0ero xarakthristiko

ths fulhs. 0umizw thn parathrhsh tou Aristotelh: oi laoi ths

Eurwphs tou fainontai drasthrioi, alla xwris o3uthta tou nou; oi

Asiates to anti0eto. Ki o Aristotelhs, etsi, katalhgei na 0ewrei

oti oi Ellhnes, zwntas s'ena klima pou metexei kai apo thn Asia

kai apo thn Eurwph,sunduazoun kai twn duo omadwn ta proterhmata.

Oellhnikos politismos, loipon, ekfrszetai mesa sthn adiakoph

ananewsh thn opoia prokaloun oi epafes me tous 3enous

politismous, kai sthn adiakoph aktinobolia pou einai apotelesma

ths idiotupias tou kai tan epafwn tou... Oi laoi, opws ka0e

organismos, afomoiwnoun oso einai zwntanoi, kai afomoiwnoun toso

perissotero kai toso kalutera oso pio zwntanoi einai. H elattesh

ths afomoiwshs ekfrazei biologikh ptwsh tou organismou; mono oi

nekroi organismoi pauoun na afomoiwnoun... Ekeino pou proexei

einai h ikanothta gia pragmatikh afomoiwsh, gia dhmiourgia dhladh

neou stoixeiou, idotupou, apo to 3eno".(Istoria ths Neoellhnikhs

Logotexnias, A0han 1968, Prologos, sel. ig-id).