The human harvest / by David Starr Jordan.

  • David Starr Jordan
Date:
1907
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Credit: The human harvest / by David Starr Jordan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ Earth, render back from out thy breast A remnant of thy Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae !” But there were not even three — not even one—“to make another Marathon,” and the Turkish troops swept over the historic country with no other hindrance than the effortless deprecation of Christendom. In the fall of Greece,as in the fall of Rome, the primal elements we may easily find. The extinction of manly blood, the extinc- tion of freedom of thought and action, in- crease of wealth gained by plunder, loss of national existence. So fell Greece and Rome, Carthage and Egypt, the Arabs and the Moors, because, their warriors dying, the nation bred real men no more. The man of the strong arm and the quick eye gave place to the slave, the pariah, the man with the hoe, whose lot changes not with the change of dynasties. Other nations of Europe may furnish il- lustrations in greater or less degree. Ger- many guards her men and reduces the waste The Human Harvest The case of Ger- many [77]
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