Note 25 — III CORRUPTION: A PERSISTENT PROBLEM OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL LIFE

Although most of the references to historic forms of corruption presented in the following pages are taken from the comparatively recent annals of nations which are still living, it is worth noting that the subject could also be illustrated abundantly from ancient history. Even prior to the Christian era Rome suffered from various kinds of political corruption that exist in very similar forms at the present day. Readers of the Old Testament find, particularly in the books of Isaiah and Micah, denunciations of social evils not unlike those published in contemporary magazines.