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The barbarians are no longer so much as vanquished competitors; they have ceased to compete at all.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “The barbarians are no longer so much as vanquished competitors; they have ceased to compete at all.”
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Bagehot claims that barbarians no longer pose a competitive threat to civilized nations.
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