In the canon
On Government
- Form
- Form Philosophy
- Year
- Year 51 BCE
- Originally in
- Originally in Latin
- Pages
- Pages 400
A Roman general falls asleep in Africa and wakes among the stars, where his dead grandfather shows him the earth below: small, mostly ocean, its empires reduced to specks, their noise lost under the music of the turning spheres. That vision closes Cicero's great book on the state, and for over a thousand years it was nearly all that survived: the rest had been scraped off the parchment so a monk could copy Augustine over the top.
nothing on earth is more agreeable to God, the Supreme Governor of the universe, than the assemblies and societies of men united together by laws
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