Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A History of the Mental Growth of Mankind in Ancient Times, Vol. 4: Rome and Early Christianity
Since then it has lost that position. The intervening centuries have made vast Changes in the industrial world. The nations now most eminent for refinement, for wealth, for manufactures, and for shipping are in the basin, not of the Mediterranean, but of the north Atlantic; and the central position which, twenty centuries since, was held by Rome, is now occupied by London. We cannot understand the past without measuring it by, and com paring it with, the present.
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