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Therefore there is no more serious mistake than regarding the Roman Empire as the exclusive work of a government: it was in truth created by two diverse forces, operating one after the other each in its own time, for both were necessary: a force of destruction the state-devouring policy of Rome; a force of reconstruction the economic unification.
Guglielmo Ferrero - Characters and events of Roman History

It would be useless to repaint here the grim picture of the last century of the Republic; sufficient to say, the grandiosity of this convulsion has hindered most people from seeing that the state-devouring policy of Rome included in itself, by the side of the forces of dissolution, beneficent, creative forces, able to bring about a new birth.
Guglielmo Ferrero - Characters and events of Roman History

The apparent inactivity of Augustus and Tiberius was simply the ultimate and most beneficent phase of the state-devouring policy of Rome, that in which, the destructive forces exhausted, the creative forces began to act.
Guglielmo Ferrero - Characters and events of Roman History

The last enterprise of this policy, which I should be tempted to call "state-devouring," was the destruction of the dynasty of the Ptolemies, in Egypt. Without doubt, the suppression of so many states, continued for two centuries, could not be accomplished without terrible upheavals.
Guglielmo Ferrero - Characters and events of Roman History
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