... foundation for the theory: to wit, the destruction of the Roman Empire in the way which, and by the men whom, the theory presupposes. The validity of the whole scheme depends upon our answer to the question, ... plough, the rake, the sickle, the ladder; allthese we have from that same origin. Of our institutions it is the same story. The divisions and the sub-divisions of Europe, the parish, the county, the ... attempted.From the Euphrates to the Scottish Highlands, from the North Sea to the Sahara and the Middle Nile, all wasone State. The world outside the Roman Empire was, in the eyes of the Imperial...