. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. n throughout Europe. If the his-torians would allow us, we should gladly turn away from thewars and proscriptions to study the quiet useful work whichshe was performing now and henceforth in every corner of herempire. The motive was, no doubt, self-interest, but it wasthat broad and far-seeing selfishness which in the realm ofpublic affairs is the nearest approach to altruism. TheRepublic that sucked the blood of her provinces is detestableto all right-thinking men. The autocracy that cleared out thecanals in Egypt, pla
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. n throughout Europe. If the his-torians would allow us, we should gladly turn away from thewars and proscriptions to study the quiet useful work whichshe was performing now and henceforth in every corner of herempire. The motive was, no doubt, self-interest, but it wasthat broad and far-seeing selfishness which in the realm ofpublic affairs is the nearest approach to altruism. TheRepublic that sucked the blood of her provinces is detestableto all right-thinking men. The autocracy that cleared out thecanals in Egypt, planted flax and encouraged pottery in Gaul,irrigated Africa and taught agriculture to the Moorish nomads,set the wild Iberians to mining and weaving, built aqueductsand roads everywhere, established a postal system and policedland and sea so effectively that a man might fare from Yorkto Palmyra, or from Trier to Morocco with his bosom full ofgold, may be tyranny governing in its own interests, but it isan institution for which the world has every reason to begrateful. 222. V
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