My Mother Is A Fish

The End of Empire by Sean Corrigan

Mr. Corrigan writes of the idea held by such men as "Francis Pryor, who goes to great lengths to point out that history (and prehistory, too, in his case) provides much more evidence of continuity overlaid with gradual change than it does of revolutions or mass invasions." Indeed, as the cited St. Jerome puts it: "We live as though we are going to die tomorrow; yet we build as though we are going to live always in this world."

Empires end and life goes on.