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To my eyes, the quote summarizes pages 464-469 of his book Universal History: From the Creation of the World to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century which is on Google books at http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC02547184
Here he has finished describing the historical arc of Athenian democracy and moved on to the Roman republic where he begins to draw parallels between the two as well as other cultures. Perhaps the reduced quote originated in a review or critique of this book? BTW, it's an excellent read. Jolomo 19:20, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The text in this section goes through great pains to avoid stating whether or not the quote can be attributed to Alexander Tytler. Amazingly, there is no reference to the analysis on Snopes about this, where claims of authorship on the full statement are individually addressed (see here). I am adding a cited statement to clarify this. --chodges (talk) 18:45, 21 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Upon editing, I see that there was a link to Snopes, but it was easy to miss. I have added a concise, referenced statement summarizing the record at Snopes, and unified the two references. --chodges (talk) 19:03, 21 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It seems that the research at http://www.lorencollins.net/tytler.html referenced as footnote 10 might be worthwhile including more prominently as well, assuming verification.
