Excerpt from Plato and the Times He Lived The countries conquered by Alexander were mainly destined to become provinces of an Empire founded by a nation which was scarcely known to him and his contemporaries; and while Greek civilisation went hand in hand with Roman institutions in spreading over the Empire, it had lost its vitality and its productive force, the fruits of which, together with the maxims of administration and jurisprudence which were the main productions of the Roman mind, were to become the inheritance of the barbarous nations whose descendants are now ruling the world, until they have to make room for the inferior races whose days, unless the course of things be altered, are coming. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.