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Excerpt from A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest, With Supplementary Chapters If we would read these lessons aright, we must come to the study of the past with candid and fearless minds ready to accept whatever it really tells us and earnest only in searching out the true meaning of its revelations. This alone can make the study of history fruitful, and bring out that earnestness, sincerity, can dour, and toleration, which are as essential to the healthy develop ment of nations as of individuals. 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.