Earth, render back from out thy breast 

 A remnant of thy Spartan dead ! 



Of the three hundred grant but three 

 To make a new Thermopylae ! 



But there were not e\^en three — not even 

 one — "to make another Marathon/* and 

 the Turkish troops swept over the historic 

 country with no other hindrance than the 

 effortless deprecation of Christendom. 



In the fallof Greece^as in the fall of Rome, 

 the primal elements we may easily find. 

 The extinction of manly blood, the extinc- 

 tion of freedom of thought and action, in- 

 crease of wealth gained by plunder, loss of 

 national existence. 



So fell Greece and Rome, Carthage and 

 Egypt, the Arabs and the Moors, because, 

 their warriors dying, the nation bred real 

 men no more. The man of the strong arm 

 and the quick eye gave place to the slave, 

 the pariah, the man with the hoe, whose lot 

 changes not with the change of dynasties. 



Other nations of Europe may furnish il- 

 lustrations in greater or less degree. Ger- 

 many guards her men and reduces the waste 



The 



Human 



Harvest 



'The case 

 of Ger- 

 many 



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