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Excerpt from Analysis of Lectures on Greek History
5. Decline in early historical times of the in?uence of the oracle - causes of this decline: (a) aristocratic tendencies of the Delphian college; (b) intellectual advance of the Greeks; (c), the venality of the oracle, at once cause and effect.
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