Julius Caesar and the foundation of the Roman imperial system . st allow that we have here a man whose equal asa ruler of men has probably never been seen , we may at least conclude with confidence,have problems on such a vast scale been met bygenius of such a kind. As a human being he wasdoubtless far from perfect, though capable of lovingand being loved like humbler men ; but if we thinkof his work only, we can allow to no other statesmanan equal meed for the lasting value of his feel the truth of that presentation of him byour own greatest genius, where it is not the bo
Julius Caesar and the foundation of the Roman imperial system . st allow that we have here a man whose equal asa ruler of men has probably never been seen , we may at least conclude with confidence,have problems on such a vast scale been met bygenius of such a kind. As a human being he wasdoubtless far from perfect, though capable of lovingand being loved like humbler men ; but if we thinkof his work only, we can allow to no other statesmanan equal meed for the lasting value of his feel the truth of that presentation of him byour own greatest genius, where it is not the bodilypresence of the hero that is the protagonist of theplay, but the spirit of Csesar that lives after and Cassius and Antony are the humancharacters in the drama, each with their strong andweak points, but over them all towers the spirit ofthe slain Caesar, destined for centuries to claim im-mortality and worship, while their weak and disunitedefforts to control the destinies of the world becameno more than material for the biographer and CHAPTER XIX. THE
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