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DEMOCRATIC IDEALS AND REALITY
Let us now call History to our aid, for no practical idea, no idea which moves men to action, can be grasped statically; we must come to it with a momentum of thought either from our own experience or from the history of the race. The oases of the East
Fig. 19.—Northern Arabia.
count in poetry as the Gardens of the World, only because they are approached over the desert!
Recorded History begins in the great oases round the north of Arabia. The first International Politics of which we have definite knowledge were concerned with the inter-
