Read on and mark how the sensual Greeks were trodden down by the more robust and hardier Romans, and finally how the Romans, having lost their manly virtues, were subdued by the nations of the north.

Vice and destruction came ever hand in hand.

Thus did Providence use each in turn as a scourge wherewith to chastise the follies of the other.

These things do not come by chance.

They are part of a great system which is at work in your own lives.