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indisputable advantages, & yet have perished from failing in other points. The Greeks may have retrograded from the want of coherence between the many small States, from the small size of the whole country, from the practice of slavery, or from extreme sensuality; for they did not succumb until "they were enervated & corrupt to the very core." *(23) The Western nations of Europe, who have surpassed immeasurably surpassed in all ways their former savage progenitors, & who now stand at the head of mankind summit in civilisation & the intellectual powers, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance from the old Greek; though they have largely profited by owe much to their written works.)

Who can possibly say why the Spaniards, at one time so eminently dominant a nation have been distanced in the race. for powers The awakening