Note 1 — IV. THE NEO-PLATONIC ARISTOTELIANS OF THE EAST.
Edward R. Jones translation
Ibn Khaldûn speaks only of rich people who have grown poor, and says nothing of the misery of the proletariate, and that which prevails in large cities, as we know it. He lived too in smaller cities, for the most part, and till late in life admired Cairo from a distance. ↑