The Law of Civilization and Decay, by Brooks Adams 44908 [Subtitle: An Essay on History] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/4/4/9/0/44908 ] [Files: 44908.txt; 44908-8.txt; 44908-0.txt] Thanks to Sean (scribe_for_hire@yahoo.com), based on page images generously made available by the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/lawofcivilizatio00adam). Regards, Al