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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: the metropolis where the foremost minds of the time were enabled
to react directly upon one another. In yet another respect these
opposite advantages were combined. The twenty-five thousand free
inhabitants might perhaps all know something of each other. In
this respect Athens was doubtless much like a New England country
town, with the all-important difference that the sordid tone due
to continual struggle for money was absent. It was like the small
town in the chance which it afforded for publicity and community
of pursuits among its inhabitants. Continuous and unrestrained
social intercourse was accordingly a distinctive feature of
Athenian life. And, as already hinted, this intercourse did not
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