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insolence and cruelty" (Zumpt). "The 

 worst government is that which is most wor- 

 shipped as divine." "The emperor pos- 

 sessed in the army an overwhelming force 

 over which citizens had no influence, which 

 was totally deaf to reason or eloquence, 

 which had no patriotism because it had no 

 country, which had no humanity because it 

 had no domestic ties." " There runs through 

 Roman literature a brigand's and barbari- 

 an's contempt for honest industry." " Ro- 

 man civilization was not a creative kind, it 

 was military, that is, destructive." What 

 was the end of it all? The nation bred real 

 men no more. To cultivate the Roman 

 fields *■'■ whole tribes were borrowed^ The 

 man of the quick eye and the strong arm 

 gave place to the slave, the scullion, the 

 pariah, the man with the hoe, the man whose 

 lot does not change, because in him there 

 lies no power to change it. "Slaves have 

 wrongs, but freemen alone have rights." So 

 at the end the Roman world yielded to the 

 barbaric, because it was weaker in force. 

 " The barbarian settled and peopled the em- 

 pire rather than conquered it." It was the 



