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 For decades the institutions of your society have stagnated and declined,
-though only a few ever realized that. But now, at last the base is breaking
+though while widely observed until recent events only a few ever realized
-away and the political unity of the Empire is shattered. Somewhere in the
+how far. But now, those institution will attempt to repair and restore
-fifty years just past is where the historians of the future will place
+with a Claudius to follow a Caligula. In the Julio-Claudian period the
+fullest flowering of Empire of Rome was still a century in the future.
+Nonetheless, the virtuous Republic founded upon the eviction of the
+Etruscan autocrats was dead and had just experienced its first monster
+of the autocracy. Somewhere in the fifty years just past is where the historians of the future will place
 an arbitrary line and say: "This marks the Fall of the American Empire."
-And they will be right, though scarcely any will recognize that Fall for
-what it is until it is long past.
-After the Fall will come inevitable intensification
-of long standing already present trends in the developing planetary culture.
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