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Excerpt from History of the Fall of the Roman Empire: Comprising a View of the Invasion and Settlement of the Barbarians
The nations of the earth then seemed in a state of general dissolution; the various races of men were intermingled; a violent and short-lived power was seized by kings, dukes, emirs, who were not chiefs of the people, but acci dental masters of a fraction of territory Whose boundaries were marked by chance alone.
No man could feel that he was bound to any land, as a son to his mother; no man could feel himself the lawful subject of any government; society could no longer afford protection to its members, and could no longer claim their allegiance in return.
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