Excerpt from The History of Greece, Vol. 2 IN the same measure in which the Greek settlements had overspread every coast, the mainland of the Greeks had continued to narrow and decrease. For the Greek nationality was so es 1138 ff; sentially based on a Greek civilization, that tiloenagtrfk M' all the members of the Greek race who took no part in its progress, however near in respect Of their habitations, appeared to be excluded from the na tionality; whereas the remotest regions in which a fortu nate settlement had enabled Greek civilization to fix its roots belonged in every sense to the land of the Greeks. 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.