The 

 Human 

 Harvest 



Fall of 

 Greece 



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deeper wisdom : " Men do not pay for war 

 in war time; the bill comes later." 



Greece died because the men who made 

 her glory had all passed away and left none 

 of their kin and therefore none of their kind. 

 '^ 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more"; 

 for the Greek of to-day, for the most part, 

 never came from the loins of Leonidas or 

 Miltiades. He is the son of the stable- 

 boys and scullions and slaves of the day of 

 her glory, those of whom imperial Greece 

 could make no use in her conquest of Asia. 

 "Most of the old Greek race," says Mr. W. 

 H. Ireland, " has been swept away, and the 

 country is now inhabited by persons of Sla- 

 vonic descent. Indeed, there is strong 

 ground for the statement that there was 

 more of the old heroic blood of Hellas in 

 the turkish army of Edhem Pasha than in 

 the soldiers of King George, who fled before 

 them three years ago." King George him- 

 self is only an alien placed on the Grecian 

 throne to suit the convenience of the out- 

 side powers, which to the ancient Greeks 

 were merely factions of barbarians. 



