The Commonwealth of Nations; an inquiry into the nature of citizenship in the British Empire, and into the mutual relations of the several communities thereofPt1 . reek military schools were established in eachprovince, and in five years time an army of 30,000Asiatics, trained and armed in Macedonian fashion,was ready to take the field. Persians were actuallyincorporated by the young conqueror in the veteranranks of his Macedonian army. It is fortunateindeed that he did not live to realize his dreams, forhis Empire would have been one in which the Asiaticelements would have so outweighed the E
The Commonwealth of Nations; an inquiry into the nature of citizenship in the British Empire, and into the mutual relations of the several communities thereofPt1 . reek military schools were established in eachprovince, and in five years time an army of 30,000Asiatics, trained and armed in Macedonian fashion,was ready to take the field. Persians were actuallyincorporated by the young conqueror in the veteranranks of his Macedonian army. It is fortunateindeed that he did not live to realize his dreams, forhis Empire would have been one in which the Asiaticelements would have so outweighed the European,that Eastern conceptions and habits would probablyhave extinguished the nascent ideals of the , in truth, was the danger from which Rome wasdestined to save It is unnecessary for our purpose to trace the wealth, as history of the Greek states until they were finallyth^Greeks incorporated in the Roman Empire and vanished,was too New confederations were attempted, but never on a slight to . x survive, fdotmg wide or firm enough to enable the Hellenesto become the masters of their own fate. The 1 E. Meyer, Kleine Schriften. PLATE VI. EAST AND WEST 55 greatest of all political ideas had been theirs, and had been able to explain as well as to realize it Sm^>^^y—but only in miniature. The republics they pro-duced did not contain more citizens than couldlisten to the voice of a single orator. As theybelieved, it was impossible for a larger communitythan this so to formulate public opinion that it couldbe used as the governing principle of the if history had justified this belief, communitiesdeveloped on the principle of the commonwealthmust always have been as fissiparous as primitivetribes. No more than the tribal system could thisprinciple have produced a stable society. HadAthens, and states no larger than she was, proved tobe the only possible expression of free institutions,and Europe had been parcelled out into a multitudeof t
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