The seeds of Rome's fall lay not in race nor in form of government, nor in wealth nor in senility, but in the influences by which the best men were cut off from parenthood, leaving its own weaker strains and strains of lower races to be fathers of coming generations.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The seeds of Rome's fall lay not in race nor in form of government, nor in wealth nor in senility, but in the influences by which the best men were cut off from parenthood, leaving its own weaker strains and strains of lower races to be fathers of coming generations." in the context of "David Starr Jordan, "War Selection in the Ancient World," 1915" to mean that wisdom is timeless.