History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . since this is not done in Christian soociety (Hist, ties relig. de laGrece, iii. 63). 330 THE EMPIRE AND ROMAN SOCIETY. lacked was never justice in its laws, intelligence in men, obedi-ence in families, order in the cities, but character; and it lackedthis because in Roman society that which makes the dignityof man, liberty, was absent. Human nature, however, still pre-served its rights, appearing in sentiments, even to a certain pointin morals; and nowhere in the world then known did men labormore or
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . since this is not done in Christian soociety (Hist, ties relig. de laGrece, iii. 63). 330 THE EMPIRE AND ROMAN SOCIETY. lacked was never justice in its laws, intelligence in men, obedi-ence in families, order in the cities, but character; and it lackedthis because in Roman society that which makes the dignityof man, liberty, was absent. Human nature, however, still pre-served its rights, appearing in sentiments, even to a certain pointin morals; and nowhere in the world then known did men labormore or think more than they did in Rome. When religioushatreds, which in our days are conjoined with political ones, shallbe removed, it will be admitted that we owe some gratitude tothis imperial Rome, who, next to Greece, has been for tbe worldthe mother of all civilized life. 1 Cameo on a fine agate of two layers. The griffins, sacred to Apollo, perhaps representpoetry. This cameo would in that case symbolize love and poetry, the one being the soul ofthe other, which it inspires and CUPID DRIVING TWO CHAPTER LXXXVII. IDEAS. I.—The Literature of this Period is not the Representation of its General Life. THE preceding chapters have shown what ideas the Romanpeople held in respect to the constitution of the family, ofthe city, and of the government, and consequently in respect to therights and duties of the father, the magistrate, and the were for the most part old ideas, with which were com-bined increasingly from day to day, by the mere effect of timeand of the development of civilized life, conceptions novel tothis severe world of antiquity. The spirit of equity enlarged thenarrow formulas of Quiritarian law; the family was organized ona basis of greater liberty; the slave became a person; charityfound a place in the administration of the Empire and the cities,good feelings in the habitual intercourse of the citizens; and forthe idea of the priv
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