1. The Fall Of The Roman Empire
system of monarchy, of leisurely and privileged gentlefolk_s, of rather despised industrial and trading people and of downtrodden and negligible laborers, and poor and common people, seemed the most stably established way of living that the world has ever seen Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth century, in this period there was no ruling unifying idea in men's minds. ... Political life, they felt, had ceased to be the urgent and tragic think, it had once been; it had become a polite comedy. ... The ideal they sustained was the ideal of a polite and polished world in which, men ...
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