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| | The Bisection; or, the Era of the Rise of the Apostasies |
 | | Fresh "horns," or kingdoms, however would take the place of the uprooted ones, for at the end of the history the number is presented as still ten. |
 | | Machiavelli, without the slightest reference to this prophecy, mentions, as the kingdoms occupying the western empire at the time of the fall of Romulus Augustulus, the last emperor of Rome, the Lombards, the Franks, the Burgundians, the Ostrogoths, the Visigoths, the Vandals, the Heruli, the Sueves, the Huns, and the Saxons-ten in all. |
 | | And it is beyond all question that, amid countless fluctuations, the kingdoms of Europe have, from their birth in the fifth century to the present day, averaged about ten in number. |
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