If, therefore, all the first men had the strict morality of families, they would no more have permitted the rise of SEMI-moral nations anywhere in the world than the Romans would have permitted them to arise in Italy.
He argues that if early humans had strong family morals, they would not have allowed the rise of less moral nations.
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