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Rh and, let us hope, beneficent things may not grow out of the reaction which has been compelled by the hammer blow of our modern Huns? Democratic Ideals and Reality, 1919 Fig 22 p 127.jpg 22.—Forest and Steppes in East Europe. (After a diagram in my paper on 'The Geographical Pivot of History' in the Geographical Journal for 1904.)

The Hunnish raids ceased after a few years, for it is probable that the man-power behind them was not very considerable; the force of a blow may be due as much to its speed as