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another, and hence the combined results of the same set of conditions.

So also the recent liberation of Greece from the suzerainty of Turkey, and the revolutions that have led to the establishment of the modern German Empire as well as the unification of Italy into one nation, are not at all due to the unassisted and unhindered enterprise of the peoples concerned, but were the consequences of the numerous favourable and unfavourable circumstances produced by the complexities of European politics.

The peculiar international diplomacy of England, Russia, France, and Turkey, by which each was pursuing its own interests according to opportunities, gave rise to such an arrangement of the political forces, and such a distribution of the powers