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> [“In the first place the process of disintegration was a slow one, for the whole tempo of life was slow and what might take decades in our own time took centuries then. It is only because we can look back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eileen-power/in-the-first-place-the-process-of-disintegration-was-a-slow-one-for/)

[Eileen Power](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eileen-power/)

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## More by Eileen Power

> [“There is the familiar figure of Orosius, defending the barbarians with the argument that when the Roman empire was founded it was founded in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eileen-power/there-is-the-familiar-figure-of-orosius-defending-the-barbarians-with/)

[Eileen Power](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eileen-power/)

> [“Sidonius lives in a world already half barbarian, yet in the year before the Western Empire falls he is still dreaming of the consulship…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eileen-power/sidonius-lives-in-a-world-already-half-barbarian-yet-in-the-year/)

[Eileen Power](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eileen-power/)

> [“...it is plain that the proportion of celibates was high in the Roman empire and that the fall in the fertility of marriages was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eileen-power/it-is-plain-that-the-proportion-of-celibates-was-high-in-the-roman/)

[Eileen Power](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eileen-power/)

> [“In the first place the process of disintegration was a slow one, for the whole tempo of life was slow and what might take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eileen-power/in-the-first-place-the-process-of-disintegration-was-a-slow-one-for/)

[Eileen Power](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eileen-power/)

> [“This peaceful infiltration of barbarians which altered the whole character of the society which it invaded would have been impossible, of course, if that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eileen-power/this-peaceful-infiltration-of-barbarians-which-altered-the-whole/)

[Eileen Power](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eileen-power/)

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