. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. LONDON SIDGWICK ^ JACKSON LTD. 3 ADAM STREET, ADELPHI First EJilion, Super-Royal %vo. 1912Second Edition, Revised, Royal ivo, 1920 All rights nsened J 10022 PREFACE This book is a continuation of The Glory that was Greece,written with the same purpose and from the same point ofview. The point of view is that of humanity and the progress ofcivilisation. The value of Romes contribution to the lastingwelfare of mankind is the test of what is to be emphasised orneglected. Hence the instructed reader will find a deliberateat
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. LONDON SIDGWICK ^ JACKSON LTD. 3 ADAM STREET, ADELPHI First EJilion, Super-Royal %vo. 1912Second Edition, Revised, Royal ivo, 1920 All rights nsened J 10022 PREFACE This book is a continuation of The Glory that was Greece,written with the same purpose and from the same point ofview. The point of view is that of humanity and the progress ofcivilisation. The value of Romes contribution to the lastingwelfare of mankind is the test of what is to be emphasised orneglected. Hence the instructed reader will find a deliberateattempt to adjust the historical balance which has, I venture tothink, been unfairly deflected by excessive deference to literaryand scholastic traditions. The Roman histories of the nine-teenth century were wont to stop short with the Republic,because Classical Latin ceased with Cicero and Ovid. Theyfollowed Livy and Tacitus in regarding the Republic as thehey-day of Roman greatness, and the Empire as merely a dis-tressing sequel beginning and ending in tragedy. From the
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