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Excerpt from Le Drame Macédonien On a fait une observation bien juste, et cette observation, si je ne me trompe, appartient à M. Thiers: La première chose que l'on voit disparaître dans un État qui se désorganise, c'est la marine. La république athénienne nous en offre un frappant exemple. A l'heure où le sage Platon, désabusé, en était réduit, sur ses derniers jours, à demander aux dieux un bon. 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.