The 

 Human 

 Harvest 



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is under the same laws. By the rise in abso- 

 lute power, as a sort of historical barometer, 

 we may mark the decHne in the breed of 

 the people. We see this in the history of 

 Rome. The conditional power of Julius 

 Caesar, resting on his own tremendous per- 

 sonality, showed that the days were past of 

 Cincinnatus and of Junius Brutus. The 

 power of Augustus showed the same. But 

 the decline went on. It is written that "the 

 little finger of Constantine was thicker than 

 the loins of Augustus." The emperor in the 

 time of Claudius and Caligula was not the 

 strong man who held in check all lesser men 

 and organizations. He was the creature of 

 the mob; and the mob, intoxicated with its 

 own work, worshipped him as divine. 

 Doubtless the last emperor, Augustulus 

 Romulus, before he was thrown into the 

 scrap-heap of history, was regarded in the 

 mob's eyes and his own as the most super- 

 human of them all. 



What have the historians to say of these 

 matters ? Very few have grasped the full sig- 

 nificance of their own words, for very few 

 have looked on men as organisms, and on 



