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Greece (Greece) (search for this): book 6, chapter 46
Crete (Greece) (search for this): book 6, chapter 46
Greed Among the Cretans
Among the Cretans the exact reverse of all these arrangements
obtains. The laws allow them to possess as much land
as they can get with no limitation whatever. Money is so
highly valued among them, that its possession is not only
thought to be necessary but in the highest degree creditable.
And in fact greed and avarice are so native to the soil in
Crete, that they are the only people in the world among whom
no stigma attaches to any sort of gain whatever. Again all
their offices are annual and on a democratical footing. I have
therefore often felt at a loss to account for these writers
speaking of the two constitutions, which are radically different,
as though they were closely united and allied. But, besides
overlooking these important differences, these writers have
gone out of their way to comment at length on the legislation
of Lycurgus: "He was the only legislator," they say, "who
saw the important points. For there being two things on
which the safety