. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. d thatthe future rests with the race which can most readily adaptitself to such new conditions. But the Romans never humbler quarters of the city, though they grew more andmore populous, grew, it seems, by immigration and not bynatural increase. Thus the populace of Rome became moreand more cosmopolitan, less and less Roman. These generali-sations are apparently well founded, but it must not beforgotten that we know scarcely anything of the free poor atRome. A nation of orators generally forgets to speak of th
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. d thatthe future rests with the race which can most readily adaptitself to such new conditions. But the Romans never humbler quarters of the city, though they grew more andmore populous, grew, it seems, by immigration and not bynatural increase. Thus the populace of Rome became moreand more cosmopolitan, less and less Roman. These generali-sations are apparently well founded, but it must not beforgotten that we know scarcely anything of the free poor atRome. A nation of orators generally forgets to speak of thebutcher, the baker, and his colleagues. It is as impossibleto believe that all trade and industry at Rome was carried onby slaves as that the poor of a city can live by bread and the circus is a respectable phrase, as true asepigrams ever are, but it cannot be the whole CONQUESTAs we have seen in the case of Greece, all ancient city-states undertook duties which the modern individualisticcommunity regards, up to the present at least, as private and. UNDER 1000 /ff tOKC? loaoftirr Map of Italy, showing ground over looo feet high not public. The city-state regarded it as part of its businessto see that its shareholders did not starve, therefore thesupply of corn and the price of it was always a matter ofstate supervision. From the earliest days of Roman historythere had been officers charged with the duty of securing 69 THE GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROMEthe citys corn-supply at reasonable charges. Now the cornwas beginning to arrive in the form of tribute from Sicilyand Africa. Soon we shall have the agrarian laws and allthe disorder that resulted from them. But it is importantto observe that the depopulation of the Italian countrysideresulted from war and politics as well as from economic course economic causes kept it depopulated. Naturenever intended Central Italy for a wheat-growing land; thevine, the olive, and the fig are its best products. Now thatt
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