Imperiul in declin

Recitind poezia  “Langueur” a lui Verlaine ,ma intorc la una din obsesiile decadentilor :prabusirea Imperiului Roman.Si cum eseistul Gilman tocmai suporta sublinierile mele,l-am chestionat in legatura cu problema:
” There is a melodramatic quality,too,in our thinking of historical epochs (though not our own;who can recognize an epoch from the middle of it?) as beeing analogous to the course [...]