On Tuesday, January 15, 2019 at 4:57:17 PM UTC-10, gggg...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > - The laws of nature, as analyzed mathematically and descriptively   
   > by Ptolemy and Galen, bore an interesting, and perhaps not   
   > entirely accidental similarity to the law of nations and of   
   > nature, as discerned by a long succession of Roman jurists. ...The   
   > concept of an objective law applicable to human affairs, yet   
   > operating in accord with Nature and Reason and apart both from   
   > divine revelation and from human whim or passion, was peculiar to   
   > Rome and societies descended from Rome.   
   >    
   > William H. McNeill: 1917-2016   
      
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