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“The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable signs, not of a great, but of a decaying society. Historians know that both phenomena were especially marked in the declining eras of the Roman Empire in the West and of its successor state, the Eastern or Byzantine Empire.”

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William Henry Chamberlin
William Henry Chamberlin

William Henry Chamberlin was an accomplished American journalist, born on February 17, 1897, and died on September 12, 1969. He is renowned for his in-depth reporting on Asia, particularly China, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. more

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