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Hystaspes himself had been less conqueror than consolidator; the Augustus of the Achaemenids, greater at peace than at war; though great at that too, but not from land-frontiers; and indeed, had ample provocation, as those things go, for his punitive expedition that failed.
To adopt the usual German tests of comparison, Russia has a population of 173 millions to be defended on three land-frontiers, while Germany has a population of 65 millions to be defended on only two. The military efforts of Russia, therefore, have been made on a scale relatively smaller than those of Germany.
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