Julius Caesar and the foundation of the Roman imperial system . JULIUS C^SAR, AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE ROMANIMPERIAL SYSTEM. CHAPTER I. BIRTH, FAMILY, AND TALY, the most beautiful ofEuropean lands, has also beenthe richest in men whom theworld has acknowledged asgreat. Long indeed is the listof her men of letters, her art-ists, her men of action, and hergreat priests. Of the worldssix greatest poets she has pro-duced two, Virgil and twice at least, in ages of general confusion andchaos, it has fallen to Italy to provide a leader strongenough to put an end to an
Julius Caesar and the foundation of the Roman imperial system . JULIUS C^SAR, AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE ROMANIMPERIAL SYSTEM. CHAPTER I. BIRTH, FAMILY, AND TALY, the most beautiful ofEuropean lands, has also beenthe richest in men whom theworld has acknowledged asgreat. Long indeed is the listof her men of letters, her art-ists, her men of action, and hergreat priests. Of the worldssix greatest poets she has pro-duced two, Virgil and twice at least, in ages of general confusion andchaos, it has fallen to Italy to provide a leader strongenough to put an end to anarchy, and by virtue of a. 2 yulius Ccesar. [102 powerful personality, to assert the force of a unifyingprinciple. In the Middle Ages, this principle was the spiritualsupremacy of the Church, and the man who enforcedit was Hildebrand, the greatest of the Popes. Elevencenturies earlier, Julius Caesar, personifying the prin-ciple of intelligent government by a single man, hadmade it possible for the Roman dominion, then onthe point of breaking up, to grow into a great politi-cal union, and so eventually to provide a materialfoundation for modern civilisation. It might seemindeed at first sight as if the work done by each ofthese men depended for its vitality on their owngenius, and barely survived them. But the ideas theyrepresented and enforced continued to govern thecourse of history for centuries after they had passedaway ; and they affect us in some measure even now. To understand adequately the position, the power,and the ideas of either of these Italians, and espe-cially of the one whose life we are t
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