Walter Bagehot: “Unnumbered little cities which might have rivalled Rome or Athens…”

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Unnumbered little cities which might have rivalled Rome or Athens doubtless perished without a sign long before history was imagined.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot laments the loss of countless cities that could have rivaled Rome or Athens, which vanished without recognition.

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Walter Bagehot: “Unnumbered little cities which might have rivalled Rome or Athens doubtless perished without a sign long before history…”