The Blood of the Nation 



righteous, its effects are most forlorn. 

 T The final effect of each strife for em- 

 pire has been the degradation or extinc- 

 tion of the nation which led in the 

 struggle.3 <2-^ci*. 7 

 Greece died because the men who 

 made her glory had all passed away 

 and left none of their kin and there- 

 fore none of their kind. 3 " '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 



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