efFeminacy, corruption, the wickedness of 

 Nero and Caligula, the weakness of the 

 train of Constantine's worthless descend- 

 ants. Itwas fixed at Philippi, when the spirit 

 of domination was victorious over the spirit 

 of freedom. It was fixed still earlier, in the 

 rise of consuls and triumvirates and the fall 

 of the simple, sturdy, self-sufficient race who 

 would brook no arbitrary ruler. When the 

 real men fell in war, or were left in far-away 

 colonies, the life of Rome still went on. But 

 it was a different type of Roman which con- 

 tinued it, and this new type repeated in Ro- 

 man history its weakling parentage. 



Thus we read in Roman history the rise 

 of the mob and of the emperor who is the 

 mob's exponent. It is not the presence of 

 the emperor which makes imperialism. It is 

 the absence of the people, the want of men. 

 Babies in their day have been emperors. A 

 wooden image would serve the same pur- 

 pose. More than once it has served it. The 

 decline of a people can have but one cause, — 

 the decline in the type from which it draws 

 its sires. A herd of cattle can degenerate in 

 no other way than this, and a race of men 



The 



Human 

 Harvest 



Rise of 

 the mob 

 in Rome 



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