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Vue Rrsixc Tipe or Cavour Acaixst Ware Worp-Scrreaacy. LI. By Lothrop Stoddard. Scribner's Sons 1920. Pp. 320.
The Pelopennessian war was the suicide of Greek civilization. It was the saddest page in history. For a generation Hellas tore itself to pieces in a delirium of fratricidal strife. Even this was not the worst. The "peace" which follow-was no peace. The Greek race lost its sense of race-unity, its soul, and soon lost its body. By the time of the Roman Conquest the Greeks were degenerate, and the Roman epithet '"Graeculus" was a term of deserved contempt. Thus perished the Greeks—the fairest slip that ever budded on the tree of life. Despite many differences the 19th century reminiscent g the Periclean age.
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