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To: Ilaine who wrote (102796)	6/25/2003 8:16:10 PM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Writing forebodingly about the end of empires is, I believe, a common form of discourse at the beginning of empires, q.v. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, circa 1776. Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was first published in 1776. In 1776 the prospect of the British Empire in some ways didn't look so great. It seemed to re-invent itself over the next 30 years. Could have had something to do with him. Scholars tend to be like canaries in coal mines, only far more sensitive to the slightest draft. Some are more like beavers in the stream.