English Sanitary Institutions
by John Simon
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781458826558
Paperback|9781458826558
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 30 CHAPTER III. POST-ROMAN ANARCHY AND THE RE-COMMENCEMENTS. Attention has been drawn to the facts of Roman antiquity, because the influence of the Roman institutions was so widespread and so strong. From the Atlantic to the Caspian, from ./Ethiopia to the Tweed, whatever urban civilisation existed during the ages of Roman ascendency was due to the direction or example of Rome. Over all which Gibbon terms that fairest part of the earth, the mother-city had taught her own rules of municipal government, and had shown her own standard of the works which are for urban convenience. It would be idle to speculate what might have been the further progress of those local institutions, if some centuries more of life had been allowed them. By the actual events they had been rendered little better than a mere false start in civilisation. With the Roman Empire wrecked as a political system, and with ita cultivated area given over for centuries to the wars and pillage and destructiveness of successive hordes of barbarians, no prosperous continuance of the former institutions was possible. And though in some cases the forms of municipal government were not extinguished, or, if so, were soon (perhaps under changed names) revived, all disposition to advance in the old lines of Roman progress was dead, and the costly constructions of the former time were not even preserved from ruin. Here and there, now and then, at intervals far apart in time or space, some one Theoderik or Karl or Alfred would for a while keep the conditions of chaos aloof from within the range of his rule: but the resting-time would be too short for repair: the end of the one heroic rule would too soon come; and then again the powers of darkness would roll back their inexorable wave. True, that, after the time when...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458826558 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458826554 |
| Weight | 1.44 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.99 In |
| List Price | $30.06 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 446 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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