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Excerpt from Analysis of Lectures on Greek History 5. Decline in early historical times of the inuence of the oracle - causes of this decline: (a) aristocratic tendencies of the Delphian college; (b) intellectual advance of the Greeks; (c), the venality of the oracle, at once cause and effect. 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.