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 l8o CHRISTIAN GREECE AND LIVING GREEK. mitted into the European family of nations, and that sometimes after defeats instead of victories, and sometimes after the populations have merely allowed themselves to be massacred without making any resistance. In view of these facts it is difficult to realize that Hellas, after having fought and triumphed by sea and by land for two years, and thus virtually acquired indepen- dence by her army, entirely failed to make the governments of that epoch even listen to what she had to say. Diplomatic Europe was at that time guided by the principles of the Holy Al- liance, and these principles were ironically de- picted by the Due de Broglie in one of his speeches : " Every revolution whatever is not only a rebellion against the government which it attacks in particular, but a criminal attempt against civilization in general. Every nation which tries to gain its rights, when its govern- ment has refused it the liberty, is a nation of pirates which ought to be outlawed and pro- scribed by all Europe. Constitutions have no lawful source except in absolutism. Any gov- ernment which is the child of a revolution is a monster which ought to be killed as soon as pos- sible." It was against such doctrines as these, as much