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 . t as a shield againstbarbarism. It was of great advantage to the worldthat such a political ]i()\ver should exist. Thecommonplace grandeur of the Roman mindwas of precisely the kind and degree to grap-ple with the problem of government. It roseto the level
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 . t as a shield againstbarbarism. It was of great advantage to the worldthat such a political ]i()\ver should exist. Thecommonplace grandeur of the Roman mindwas of precisely the kind and degree to grap-ple with the problem of government. It roseto the level of politics, but not to the levelof philosophy. The epoch had dawned whena good lawyer was more necessary than a greatthinker; when stability with liberty was betterthan chaos with freedom. This necessity wassupplied by Rome. She gave the civilizationof practicality, of adaptation, of solid construc-tion, which promised duraliility to civil insti- 50 UXIVEIiSAL HISTORY.—THE AXCIKXT WORLD. tutiniis and order tn sDcifty. The ydveriimentwhich was thus contrived and the laws whichsprang into existence undei these cnnditioubhad in them the elements of ptipetuit) , and In UKiral iiualitics the Romans were notunlike the (jreeks. A fair consideration, how-e\ti, of the uhtive chaiacters of the tworates would concede the sui)iiiiiit\ to the. although the i(]>o~t of muikuid was postponedto remote ages and di t mt (limes ?^ct fai morethan e\er betoic win tin ( duditious of socialmelioi itiim secuicd uudu iUl lU pRts of theI{<,man race. IKL UK l; former. In the earlier times of the Republic,though there was much savage barbarity dis-played by her peo[)le, yet were the sterlingvirtues at such a premium as to merit which has been bestowed by succeeding ROME. —THE PEOPLE. 57 generations. The craft and snlitlety of tlieGrecian character were generally flespiscfl bythe early Romans. True it is, that when theinterests of the Republic seemed to be imper-iled, the reasons
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