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 THE GREEKS UNDER TURKISH BONDAGE. 167 by fighting for Greece. The Church and the communal system had, as we have seen, saved the integrity and the unity of the nation. The klephthai and the armatoloi, from generation to generation, had handed down the warrior spirit of the Hellenic race, and when the hour of battle came Hellas had children who could fight for her.