Note 016
1ST Cause of the Destruction of Rome From Chapter 71 of the Decline & Fall

Tacitus (Annals i. 79) reports the petitions of the different towns of Italy to the senate against the measure; and we may applaud the progress of reason. On a similar occasion, local interests would undoubtedly be consulted: but an English House of Commons would reject with contempt the arguments of superstition, "that nature had assigned to the rivers their proper course," etc.

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