All the
dire calamities of Greece may be traced to this word autonomia.[49]
... Greece presented the first great proof of a fact of which we are now
in danger of furnishing another and more terrible example to the world.
It is the utter impossibility of peace, in a territory made by nature a
geographical unity, inhabited by a people, or peoples, of one lineage,
one language, bound together in historical reminiscences, yet divided
into petty sovereign States too small for any respectable nationalities
themselves, and yet preventing any beneficent nationality as a whole. No
animosities have been so fierce as those existing among people thus
geographically and politically related. No wars with each other have
been so cruel; no home factions have been so incessant, so treacherous,
and so debasing. The very ties that draw them near only awaken occasions
of strife, which would not have existed between tribes wholly alien to
each other in language and religion.
[Footnote 49: State sovereignty.]
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=_Horace Greeley,[50] 1811-1873._=
From a "Lecture on the Emancipation of Labor."
=_164._= THE PROBLEM OF LABOR.
The worker of the nineteenth century stands a sad and careworn man.
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