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For the greater part of recorded history the most successful and powerful states were autocracies; yet now the world is increasingly dominated by democracies. I

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

There is perhaps no other European city quite as romantic, as exquisitely beautiful or as enigmatic as Venice. 'La Serenissima' floats on a hundred islets in a