This idea has been exported to many parts of the world and it has brought light and civilization and good life to millions of persons. The other form of society is built on that aberration of the human mind which holds one individual so supreme that his authority is absolute and that all others in the realm are like chattel of the ruler. This form of society has held sway in the East for centuries and today sits like a black plague on almost the entire Asiatic Continent from China to Soviet Russia and has brought such suffering and degradation to masses of human beings as would tax the credulity of Satan himself. Greece throughout her glorious history has looked across that narrow body of water which separates Europe from the East. In the very dawn of European history. Greek city states already putting Into practice the theory of democratic government met and repulsed the threat of the Persian autocrat who would bring the Asiatic principle of absolute despotism to Europe. In the Christian era the Greeks for centuries heroically opposed and stemmed the incursions of the despotic Ottoman Turks into Europe before being overwhelmed. This calamity did not daunt the fighting spirit of the Greek people.
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Asiatic societies are described as despotic and bringing suffering.