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This excerpt comes from a lecture dated October 22, 1856. According to Thurmond's notes, Holcombe delved into the origins of states, looking primarily at the evolution of monarchy, the republican form of government, and concepts of liberty in Ancient Greece.
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“Liberty born in slave-holding Greece. How? A single nation & language wd [sic] have produced a [illegible] of Civ [sic] wh. wd. have precluded improvement. Ancient migration was owing to redundant population or to physical causes.” (p. 11)
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