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Excerpt from Empire and Sovereignty
When we say that in ancient Greece the idea of the state was realized only in the city, we recognize not only the fact that Greek national life never attained any ade quate political organization, but also that to Greek political thinkers the idea of such an organization did not assume the form of a consolidated state. The abortive steps toward political unity show the possible lines of further development: a united Greece would have been either a permanent symmachy, like that headed by Athens in the time of Pericles, or a federation like the Achaean, extending over the whole of Greece; that is to say, it would have been a protectorate or a federal state. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
