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states, as well as the influence of multifarious aboriginal and non-Aryan rites and ceremonies. In like manner the literature and life of the kingdoms of the Hellenistic world that came into being under the movement for the expansion of Greece begun by Alexander were the outcome, in varying degrees, of the contact between the East and the West; and in politics as in philosophy, industrial as well as social life, represented the processes and products of the assimilation that was consciously at work under the altered conditions of the world.

In this way the individuality and peculiar type of social and literary life of each of the ancient nations of the world were developed simultaneously with, and even as the results of, the individuality and nationality