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Title: History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894 Ripley, M. M Clarke, W. J Mahaffy, John Pentland, Sir, 1839-1919
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Publisher: Boston : C. F. Jewett
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nly the protests ofliberty and the revengesof despotism. But when weremember that words lastlonger than the things theysignify, we shall not considerthese apparent regrets asserious; and we shall turnaway from the sanguinaryor repulsive scenes of thepalace and the curia, to be-hold a new world by degreesarising and overspreadingthese ruins and these recol-lections. The men of the futurewere the provincials whowere to tear from Italy herancient privileges, to propa-gate throughout the barbaricWest the Graeco-Latiu civ-ilization, and to cause to be bestowed upon a hundred millions ofmen,—by emperors born at Seville, Ljons, or Leptis, — laws whichare worthy to be called recorded reason. The new religion, too, wasto be formed for this new state of society; the Mosaic Jehovah, thejealous and implacable ruler of a privileged race, was to be revealedby Jesus Christ as the universal God of the poor and afflicted. So Bronze ligure of the time of the Emperors (^Cabinet dc France, Xo. 3050).
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■is SECURITY.! 676 THE TRIUMVIRATES AND THE REVOLUTION, 79 TO 30 that at the very time when tlie Emperors were inserting into thecifU k^w the isolating principle of individual right, Christianitywas endeavoring to instil into mens hearts the uniting sentimentof fraternity, — two grand ideas of the imperial epoch which modernEurope has re-discovered beneath the ruins of the Middle Ages,and with them the obligation to unite the two and cause theirfinal triumph in human society. Li order to measure this advance of the provinces towardsan equality of rights, civilization, wealth, and later, of religion,it is well to mark clearly the point whence each started. Weshall then better judge the work done by the Emperors; we shallsee whether they were able to do by their institutions for the benefitof the State what Christianity, by its doctrines, did for the Church;whether, finally, to iise the language of Bossuet, a new people isabout to spring up, consisting of all the nations included wi

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