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 . greatest, if not the earHest, of the Greekdemocracies, states in which the people governedthemselves directly, without having recourse to kingsor
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 . greatest, if not the earHest, of the Greekdemocracies, states in which the people governedthemselves directly, without having recourse to kingsor priesthoods. Thus Athens stands as the source of allour modern doctrines of repubhcan government, the type uponwhich our own American institutions are founded, and bywhose errors and downfall we must learn the pitfalls to all of these old Greek cities seem to have gonethrough about the same course, the same cycle, we might callit, of experience in government. At first each was ruled by aking; gradually this king lost his power to what was called anoligarchy, a small collection of powerful aristocrats. From ohgarchies the citiespassed to tyrannies—that is, some one man seized authority, usually by theaid of the lower classes, and ruled the city with no obedience to any law butthat of his own will, no reliance on aught but his own strength. Note thatto the Greeks, therefore, this word tyrant did not carry the suggestion that 176.
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