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 34 CHRISTIAN GREECE AND LIVING GREEK. had gained her independence he took an active interest in the new formation of his country. In 1830-31 he attacked the government of Kapo- distria in two publications. These books were in 1832 publicly destroyed on the stake in Nau- plia by order of the brother of the president, Augustine Kapodistria. He died in 1833. His autobiography appeared in Paris in the same year. As we have seen, Korai's was still alive during the great national war. In the first year the necessity of draughting a constitution and of enacting legislation arose. Which language should be chosen? The contemporaneous peo- ple's language was not feasible, because it was as varied as possible ; the Greeks as an entirety could not have understood it ; besides, this peo- ple's language was poor and incapable of ex- pressing ideas. The majority of the men com- posing the delegations were not teachers, or professors, or archaeologists; they were physi- cians, sailors, merchants, priests, soldiers, and they used the mixed language sanctioned by practical use at that time. This language of the constitution and the legislation was the same as that in which the journals were written, in which the correspondence was kept. It was a