But surely they were incomparably better fitted than either for the supreme direction of affairs.
There is indeed a remarkable coincidence between the progress of the art of war, and that of the art of oratory, among the Greeks.

They both advanced to perfection by contemporaneous steps, and from similar causes.

The early speakers, like the early warriors of Greece, were merely a militia.

It was found that in both employments practice and discipline gave superiority.

(It has often occurred to me, that to the circumstances mentioned in the text is to be referred one of the most remarkable events in Grecian history; I mean the silent but rapid downfall of the Lacedaemonian power.