Saint Dominic High School - Stella Maris Yearbook (Oyster Bay, NY)

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Since the dawn of histor when man first a eared DEN GGL of 406 Q GREECE 'Y' 'v OM v 6 ee Q 'S as Y PP on the earth he alone of all the animals had power to think and a free will With the advent of the Golden Age of Greece man s reasoning ability had increased to such an extent as to enable him to think rationally of the problems of the universe mathematics philosophy and medicine Philosophical speculation and h1stor1cal inquiry both arose in the sixth century BC 1n Greek history These fields gave rise to the the brillrance of the philosophers Socrates Plato and Aristotle Man also excelled in the field of Art creating many beautiful masterpieces which serve to recall to mmd the early glory that man had achieved through knowledge Man s advance through history was somewhat halted by the Barbaric Invaders The curtam of obscurity that Roman c1v1l1zat1on However the curtam closed in again and man d1d not succeed in removing this barrier until the Middle Ages This period of mans achievements opened a new advance in learning As soon as the scar of feudalism was wiped from the earth man was again ready to make new advances At this time the papacy took the lead and religious impulse was brought to the Christian World The feeling of nationalrty grew all over Europe The growth of commerce strengthened the middle classes and was in itself a major factor for the over throwing of feudalnsm By the end of the fifteenth century too the growth of the Renaissance had en larged and quickened man s thinking The Renaissance took its rise in Italy It brought to life the genius of Michelangelo Raphael and daV1nc1 in painting Bacon johnson and Milton m literature and Morot Villon and Ronsard in poetry 1 L 0 'ff fo,94 55 Rf-NPA Prom this period came some of the greatest contribu tions to the field of art and music that our world has ever known With the close of the Renaissance period man turned his back on cultural advances and sought mstead the key to a mechanical world This then ushered 1n the Industrial Revolution By the eighteenth century man had reached a high cultural level without any mechanical inventions used hundreds of years ago were still Suddenly however a series of inventions was made in England They introduced a new industrral era greater and more far reaching than any before man realizing that hrs hold was slipping on the earth felt the need for a change The change came in the form of the Industrial Revolutron Im provements were made on spinning machmery weav Implements in use then In this case were that although a sharp class distinction was made man had increased his productive power He was now prepared to go on improving on a far higher level than was ever dreamed of by t e ancient Greeks With the advent of the twentieth century came the birth of the Atomic Age Man tried to harness the power of the atom and make it work for him Atomic bombs were designed for war The atoms were how ever also used in peacetime Development and research is still expanding and new ideas are born daily for atomic power plants ships cars and even houses Albert Einstein worked in thrs field to come up with many new theor1es on the atom In this age man has achieved a balance between industry and culture It is a prosperous era now Nevertheless it is an uncertain age with the future in the hands of us the leaders of tomorrow and may we always remember to place our trust in God I U' m p Z gn O lu 0 u of fell uponucultural advances was briefly pierced by the ing, bleaching and even steam engines: The,results 1 I Q . . , n . ' Q 4 . .

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As we turn the pages of hrstory we see rn the early perlod of the glory that once belonged to Greece and Rome the growth of a culture so r1ch and splendrd that ll has not been equaled by any c1v1l1zat1on Thxs era saw the age of Thrnkers Our knowledge of the untverse of ph1losophy archntecture and medt cme stems from tts scholars The three wrse men Socrates Plato and Arrstotle are rmmortal for therr playwrtghts as well from th1s era w1ll long occupy a hrgh pedestal rn the ltterary world These pages of hrstory are resplendent wrth the oratory of Clcero and Demosthenes the leadershlp of Alexander the Great and of Caesar and the mformatlve narratwes of V1rg1l and of Homer Nerther txme nor space permnts the mentlon of the vast lmmortals of the Golden era Undoubtedly these men are mdtcatrve of the countless treasures and tradrtlons bequeathed to EN LD af ACF E Ggsuocs QOME mankmd In IhlS epoch man s v1tal1ty of mmd was equalled only by h1s vrgor of body From the Crrcus Maxlmus to the Olymprc games at Greece we have evldence of the sports mmded Grecrans and Romans and of how vltal a vlgorous body was to them Strength of body was thetr strength of justxce as the democracy of the Greek cnty states opposed the evrl practxce of slavery cratrc laws and practrces however speak loudly m tts behalf Perhaps the most outstandmg example were the Justmtan Code the Twelve Tables and the Age of Pertcles whrch marked the height of Athenran Democracy These are the mteresttng facts about the magmfr cence of an age that once belonged to Greece and Rome The record achleved was a mrlestone along man s stony road to the present , . , . ' 9 . , l . , . . .- . . u . i, , . reason and philosophy. The works of many poets and and persecution practices, under the Romans. Its demo- n n I , , u . . n q . . n , - . 7 I l ! u u n , u u . n n