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Excerpt from The Great Events, Vol. 4
This last is what made necessary the barbarian overthrow Of Rome, if the world was still to advance. The slowly progressing knowledge of the arts and handicrafts which we have seen passed down from Egypt to Babylonia, to Persia, Greece, and Rome, had not been acquired without heavy loss. The system of slavery which allowed the few to think, while the many were constrained to toil as beasts, had eaten like a canker into the heart Of society. The Roman world was repeating the oft-told tale Of the past, and sinking into the lifeless formalism Of which Egypt was the type. Man had become wise, but worthless.
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