The world: historical and actual . N eminent historian has wellremarked that there seemsto be something in the Ro-man rule which broughtdeath to the Greek spirit.,~p£ When, therefore, in tracing•JKltlie historic wars of Greecewe K-^OD^*^ im followed the fortunes of theGreeks to the period of Roman conquest,we may fairly he said to hate reached theend, in an important sense, of AncientGreece. From that time until our owncentury, that unhappy country was theprey of misery and oppression. Therewas no Medieval Greece. For two chil-iads the land was obscured. Its historycould be written with minute
The world: historical and actual . N eminent historian has wellremarked that there seemsto be something in the Ro-man rule which broughtdeath to the Greek spirit.,~p£ When, therefore, in tracing•JKltlie historic wars of Greecewe K-^OD^*^ im followed the fortunes of theGreeks to the period of Roman conquest,we may fairly he said to hate reached theend, in an important sense, of AncientGreece. From that time until our owncentury, that unhappy country was theprey of misery and oppression. Therewas no Medieval Greece. For two chil-iads the land was obscured. Its historycould be written with minuteness, but with no thought permeated, if itdid not dominate, theintellectual world, but apart from philosophy, includ-ing speculative theology, poetry and general litera-ture, all was blank. Modern Greece is indeed insig-nificant, still it is a distinct national entity. Totrace in outline the course of events, from a Gre-cian point of view, from the great conquest to thepresent day, and then set forth the actual con
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