(NLI Ruminations) When we work from first principles, we discover that in the en

(NLI Ruminations)
When we work from first principles, we discover that in the end result, it’s rather obvious that the Roman Republic wasn’t equaled until the american founding, but that founding was as dependent upon the English invention of the modern state and empiricism as was Rome upon the Greek invention of politics and reason. The fundamental problem of antiquity was communication, dependence on manual and animal labor, and overextension of their attempt to expand civil society, and the returns for them and others from doing so. An effort that began in self-defense, and ended in incapacity for self-defense.