Excerpt from The Dangers of the Country IN the revolutions which overthrow the power and the independency of nations, there is nothing more asto mishing than the extreme improvidence which some times prepares their fall. Let us mark in the page of, history the periods which immediately preceded the subjugation of Greece, byphilip and Alexander, the dreadful overthrow of Carthage, by Rome, and of Rome herself by, the Barbarians, and we shall perceive that their fate was long tery visibly approaching, that: it might probably have been averted by vigour and prudence, but that the devoted nations strangely me gleeted the obvious means of self-preservation, till the. Opportunity of using them was lost. 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.