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. ... "This awful revolution," wrote Gibbon of the Western collapse, "may be usefully applied to the useful instruction of the present age. ... The Barbarian world was agitated by the rapid impulse of war; and the pe...

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