Sunday, March 23, 2025

 

Sounds Familiar

Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969; rpt. 1975), p. 13:
Taxation had doubled, even trebled, within living memory. The poor were victimized by an insane inflation. The rich defended themselves by unparalleled accumulations of property.



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