Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-03-21
TmE REPUBLIC or ATHENS.

London, has recently been augmented
with relic Of more than common In
tercst. Itconsists Of two long strips OF
yellow coior.d papyrus. covered with
ancient Greek characters written In
ink, and supposed u be a faithful copy
Of Afistotle'- treatise ON the constilu'
ton Of Athens.
This work has hitherto been known
TO scholars only from frsgmentary
quotations found In the writings OF
other authors. Where the manuscript
was found and how, are incidents
which are withheld from the public
but able critics are satisfied OF IL
gcnuibeness and consider IT, date TO be
Is a. D., or Whereabouts.
The tie tlse Is OF great Interest. IL
shows the experience ofa little nation,
existing more than two thousand years
aeo. IL IL n picture Of the rise, de-
velopment and decay Of democracy In
that age. outlined by one Of the great
e-t philosophers that ever lived, aud
all the more Instructive because II l.
free from any undue coloring. The
great writer lays before his readers the
facis, n his mastermind perceived
them, aud leaves the reader to draw
his own conclusions.
Through the defects Of the manu-.
script the description Of the condition
Of Athens under the rule Of kings IL
lost; hut we can easily understand that
the people gradually grow tir,d Of auto
cratic rule and demanded some voice
In the government. Conditions stint.
lar 10 those In Russia nj present may
be imagined.
Tho flr-t step towards democracy
was tho institution Of the Office Of
Polemarch or oommauder.in.chicf,
whereby the absolute power OF the
king, Ia matters Of war, was broken.
Then another office, that Of Archou or
ruler, who shared the power with the
king,and the succession was broken; 10
that tnsf..d of th. arouu falling an
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