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Excerpt from The Greatness and Decline of Rome, Vol. 5
The decay of the great industrial and commercial towns also brought poverty upon the whole of Greece; agricultural work proved unprofitable, and the artisans could find no employ ment in the secondary towns yet at the same time, as in great and small republics, the peasants ?ocked to the towns from the most distant parts of the country and abandoned the country as the nation grew poorer. The vices attendant upon wealth, luxury, the thirst for pleasure, avarice, the gambling Spirit.
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