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states grouped about some trading harbor from growing to anything like the size we should naturally hiume to be probable; while in the open country, ruled by herdsmen, and this very early, immense realms came into being. The second cause for the small beginnings of these states is found in this, that the hinterland whether in the hills or on the few plains of the Mediterranean was occupied by warlike tribes. These tribesmen, either hunters or warlike herdsmen, or else primitive feudal states of the same masterrace as the sea nomads, were not likelyto be subjugated without a severe contest. Thus in Greece the interior was saved from the maritime states. For these reasons the maritime State, even when most developed, always remains centralized, one is tempted to say centered, on itstrading harbor; while the territorialState, strongly decentralized from the start, for a [164]long time continues to develop as it expands a still more pronounced decentralization. Later, we shall see how this is affected by the adoption of those forms of government and of economic achievement which first were perfected in the "city-state," and which thus obtained the strength to counteract the centrifugal forces, and to build up thecentral organization which is characteristic of ourmodern states. This is the first great contrast between the two forms of the State. No less decisive is the second point of contrast, whereby the territorial state remains tied up to natural economies as opposed to hi economies, toward which the maritime State quickly turns. This contrast grows also out of the basic conditions of their existence. wherever a state lives in natural economy, hi is a superfluous luxury—so superfluous that an economy developedto the use of hi retrogrades again into a system of his in kind as soonas the community drops back into the primitive form. Thus after Charlemagne [165]had issuedgood coins, the economic situationexpelled them. Neustria—not to mention Austrasia—under the stress of the migration of the peoples reverted to hi in kind. such a system can well do without hi as a standard of values, since it is without any developed intercourse and traffic. The lord's tenants furnish as tribute those things that the lord and his followers consume immediately; while his ornaments, fine fabrics,damascened arms, or rare horses, salt, etc., are procured in exchange with wandering merchants for slaves, wax, furs and other products of a warlike economic system of exchange in kind. In city life, at any advanced stage of development, it is impossible to exist without a common measure of values. the hi mechanic in a city can not, except in rare cases, find some other craftsman in need of the special thing which he produces, prepared to consume it immediately. Then, too, in cities the inevitable retail trade in food products, where every one must purchase nearly everything [166]required, makes the use of coined hi quite inevitable. It is impossible to conduct trade in its more limited sense, not between merchant and customers, but between merchant and merchant, without having a common measure of value. Imagine the case of a trader entering a port with a cargo of slaves, wishing to take cloth as a return cargo, and finding a cloth merchant who at the time may not want slaves butiron, or cattle, or furs. To accomplish this exchange, at least a dozen intermediate trades would have to takeplace before the object could be achieved. That can be avoided only if there exists some one commodity desired by all. in the system of hi in kind of the .