where the Latin tongue still remains in its Italian
variety as the speech of literature and city life; it Romanized one
great part of the earlier inhabitants: it had the great political
effect of all, that of planting the Roman power in a Greek city, and
thereby creating a State, and in the end a nation, which was Roman on
one side, and Greek on the other. Then came the wandering of the
nations, on which, as regards men of our own race, we need not dwell.
The Goths marched at will through the Eastern Empire; but no Teutonic
settlement was ever made within its bounds, no lasting Teutonic
settlement was ever made even on its border. The part of the Teuton in
the West was played, far less perfectly indeed, by the Slave in the
East. He is there what the Teuton is here, the great representative of
what we may call the modern European races, those whose part in history
began after the establishment of the Rouman power. The differences
between the position of the two races are chiefly these. The Slave in
the East has pre-Roman races standing alongside of him in a way in
which the Teuton has not in the West. On the Greeks and Albanians he
has had but little influence; on the Rouman and his language his
influence has been far greater, but hardly so great as the influence of
the Teuton on the Romance nations and languages of western Europe. The
Slave too stands alongside of races which have come in since his own
coming, in a way in which the Teuton in the West is still further from
doing. That is to say, besides Greeks, Albanians, and Roumans, he
stands alongside of Bulgarians, Magyars, and Turks, who have nothing to
answer to them in the West. The Slave, in the time of his coming, in
the nature of his settlement, answers roughly to the Teuton; his
position is what that of the Teuton would be if western Europe had been
brought under the power of an alien race at some time later than his
own settlement. The Slaves undoubtedly form the greatest element in
the population of the Eastern peninsula, and they once reached more
widely still. Taking the Slavonic name in its widest meaning, they
occupy all the lands from the Danube and its great tributaries
southward to the strictly Greek border. The exceptions are where
earlier races remain, Greek or Italian on the coast-line, Albanian in
the mountains. The Slaves hold the heart of the peninsula, and they
hold more than the peninsula itself. The Slave lives equally on both
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