The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands . 1-86 I. Greece—Laws ot Lycurgus 171 was the real ruler of the city. His doctrines spread to other places, until almostevery Grecian metropolis had
The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands . 1-86 I. Greece—Laws ot Lycurgus 171 was the real ruler of the city. His doctrines spread to other places, until almostevery Grecian metropolis had its school of Pythagoreans, a sort of intellectualaristocracy, who not only swayed the thought of the community, but oftenheld pohtical control as well. In Crotona the followers of Pythagoras attempted at length to establish anoligarchy, that is, a government open only to a few of themselves; but theywere defeated and driven out with considerable bloodshed by an uprising of thecommon folk, the democracy. Similar tumults occurred in other cities, andgradually this government by philosophers sank into obscurity. As P^lhag-oras never wrote down his doctrines, and forbade his followers to do so, histeachings have come down to us only in vague and distorted form, and we reallyknow little of them. They were certainly, however, tremendously admiredand influential in his own time. While, in the world of Greater Greece, the pen was thus making its firstef
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