Looking back on world history from our modern-times perspective
is a great blessing. We see things in a larger setting. It is
easier for us, looking back, to observe the finger of Providence
in guiding so many world events to a desired result. Answers
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student of history can make is the amazing fact that when
monumental history-making questions were being debated or
actions were being taken, there always seemed to appear on the
scene guidelines and answers for the serious, struggling,
searching students, if they would make the effort to search them
out. We think of Cicero, the great Roman statesman, who tried to
save the Republic of Rome from degenerating into a complete
dictatorship by reminding the people they must return to the
Natural Law basis of virtue and morality. We think of the 18th
century Baron Charles de Montesquieu who used his inherited
fortune to prove that separation of powers--an idea which had
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