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have been taught to ascribe the greatness and glory
of the two foremost nations of Europe and the
world, to the union of the various races from
which they have sprung. To go back to the brightest
era of antiquity, the Hellenes, who made peace
the centre of art and intellectual progress, and
bequeathed to the world an inheritance which reflects
an undying halo of renown on their name, themselves
acknowledged their obligations to the [Pelasgians sp?] who
preceded them in the land, and were, to their view
at least, the Aborigines of Hellas. And when
the Hellenes with great energy and rapidity colonized
the shores of the Mediterranean, they received, as
elements of the new Communities they were
establishing in Europe, Asia, and Africa, many
of the subjugated aborigines. The Roman Colonies
were formed less by the emigration of
Roman citizens than by the introduction, by force
of arms, of Roman rule, so that the conquered
peoples formed almost the whole population of