But the history of Rome changes as a good diorama changes; while you look, you hardly see it alter; each moment is hardly different from the last moment; yet at the close the metamorphosis is complete, and scarcely anything is as it began.
He describes the gradual yet profound changes in Rome's history, likening it to a diorama.
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