"The ancient was the peer of the modem merchant. One thing only we may claim for our own times: Christianity has certainly implanted in us a deeper sympathy with the rights and the feelings of our fellow-men, and a greater abhorrence of their violation."
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Business Life in Ancient Rome (1880)
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Charles George Herbermann
Charles George Herbermann (8 December 1840 – 24 August 1916) was a German historian.
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