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... Roman Empire by presenting it as a practical realization of the ideal king- dom of Plato's philosopher king , while Greek men of ac- tion gained admission to the Roman public service . In the fourth century after Christ , the Roman Emperor ...
... Roman Empire by presenting it as a practical realization of the ideal king- dom of Plato's philosopher king , while Greek men of ac- tion gained admission to the Roman public service . In the fourth century after Christ , the Roman Emperor ...
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... Roman Empire perished , neither contemporaries nor posterity acknowledged its demise , and , since their eyes refused to face the facts , they sought , at the first op- portunity , to bring these facts into conformity with their fancy ...
... Roman Empire perished , neither contemporaries nor posterity acknowledged its demise , and , since their eyes refused to face the facts , they sought , at the first op- portunity , to bring these facts into conformity with their fancy ...
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... Roman Empire's ef- fective power , or in centuries subsequent to the Empire's demise : the spiritual genius of the tenth - century Sicilian monk , Saint Nilus , who made a new Magna Graecia in Calabria out of Christian Greek refugees ...
... Roman Empire's ef- fective power , or in centuries subsequent to the Empire's demise : the spiritual genius of the tenth - century Sicilian monk , Saint Nilus , who made a new Magna Graecia in Calabria out of Christian Greek refugees ...
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CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL Acknowledgments | 9 |
Preface | 11 |
My View of History | 15 |
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