The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically

by Franz Oppenheimer

[24] Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 123.

[25] Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 591.

[26] Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 370.

[27] Ratzel, l. c. II, pp. 390–1.

[28] Ratzel, l. c. II, pp. 388–9.

[29] Ratzel, l. c. II, pp. 103–04.

[30] Thurnwald, Staat und Wirtschaft im altem Ægypten. Zeitschrift für Soz. Wissenchaft, vol. 4 1901, pp. 700–01.

[31] Ratzel, l. c. II, pp. 404–05. (Gumplowicz, Rassenkampf, p. 264: “Egypt, rich and self-sufficient, says Ranke, invited the avarice of neighboring tribes, who served other gods. Under the name of the Shepherd peoples, foreign dynasts and foreign tribes ruled Egypt for centuries.

“Truly, the summary of universal history could not be begun with more characteristic words than those of Ranke. For in the words applied to Egypt the quintessence of the whole history of mankind is summed up.”—Translator.)