Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . legion and the peacet tin inh leluced the nunilm t) eighteenE\Ln thi numbei wa jut cnth iUj,mented to and plebeian, Op-timate and Prole-tarian, Tvas carriedsteadily forwaidIt was the polR^of the Eiin uwithout an actu ddestruction ot luecpialities in lankto
Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . legion and the peacet tin inh leluced the nunilm t) eighteenE\Ln thi numbei wa jut cnth iUj,mented to and plebeian, Op-timate and Prole-tarian, Tvas carriedsteadily forwaidIt was the polR^of the Eiin uwithout an actu ddestruction ot luecpialities in lankto constitute a smgle body politic—the People otKiime. If the mdustrial eneigiesof the masses couldhave been quickeued into piopeiactivity a --tillmore h e a 11 li t u 1condition mighthave been pro-duced. Unfortu-nate it was, how-ever, that the Eomau commons In \ r ^ 1 x:?-. indulgence, acquired the habits ot unthiittthe vices of indolence. To continue thegratuitous distribution of provision eemeda necessity of the situation. -V^am t thipractice Julius Ctesar had set him elt m 1 hiadministration. By vigorous mea uies he hidsucceeded in reducing the numbei ot titebeneficiaries to a hundred and se\ents th usand; but the indulgent Augustu -(\dlin_ tiadminister a temporary panacea, peimitte 1 thenumoer of paupers to whom gram -^^ i i ularlv distrilniteil tn increase to tin lum li 1 tw nt\ hM tht kin 1 m_ li tiibuted toth 1 lit 1 tht Ini] II \\h 1 th pt tnceof an imn wi m t 1 ii 1 1 i lit k louswtit titi ued t ^uul th ti iitit ot thePhiii thite weiL I i^ncd to b])uii se\ent I mil nil anl Mce ii t^\o to Eg-vjit onet N itli in ^fiica two to the extierne East111 pi ttctun of Eome and Itih was intiu ti 1 t I the Pi\toiian Guaid The oldierjt th It ulu aims weie con tituted a ch>-s111 1 im 1 1 the duectiou of able ofrcti they1 iin 1-s li ii)line and lib i liinti
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