Lectures and Essays Lectures and Essays

Lectures and Essays

Publisher Description

This is a history book. A remark which may in all likelihood be extended to the background of history in general. Nothing surely can be more grotesque than the idea of a set of wolves, like the Norse pirates before their conversion to Christianity, constructing in their den the Cloaca Maxima. That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain. We can hardly doubt that she was a seat of industry and commerce, and that the theory which represents her industry and commerce as having been developed subsequently to her conquests is the reverse of the fact. Whence, but from industry and commerce, could the population and the wealth have come? Peasant farmers do not live in cities, and plunderers do not accumulate. Rome had around her what was then a rich and peopled plain.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
1910
7 June
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
592
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SIZE
367.8
KB

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