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 112 CHRISTIAN GREECE AND LIVING GREEK. further preliminaries, pronounced and pro- claimed through the Moniteur: " The dynasty of Naples has ceased to reign." Fallmerayer, per- haps admiring the style of the great man in deciding the fate of a nation, disposed of the Greeks in the following words: "The Hellenic race has died out in Europe." This bold asser- tion was made by him in the year 1830. For some years Fallmerayer gained an easy victory over numerous opponents who attacked him with much passion, but with insufficient philological and historical knowledge. Only one German scholar, the eminent Zinkeisen, has taken the proper course to contradict the ingenious an- nihilator of the Greeks. He disproved Fall- merayer's statements by means of a careful and systematic research of Byzantine historians, and thereby succeeded in exposing many errors and superficialities of that writer. After Zinkeisen came scientific men like Ludwig Ross, Ernst Curtius, and Carl Mendelssohn-Bartholdi, who aided in refuting Fallmerayer's theories com- pletely. /^ This reiteration of Fallmerayer' s error may appear superfluous, but it is not; for there are I many people who have read Fallmerayer only I and are ignorant of the fact that his statements