Note 89 — Chapter II · THE MARK.

History supplies numerous illustrations of this process. Rome grew out of the union of the Rhamnes and Luceres with the Sabines: and generally speaking in Greece, the origin of the πόλις lies in what may be called the compression of the κώμαι. The ἀγορὰ is on the space of neutral ground where all may meet on equal terms, as the Russians and Chinese trade at Kiachta: but then when the πόλις has grown up, the ἀγορὰ is in its centre, not in its suburbs.