104 THE VICES AND VIRTUES OP ROME 



large aroas of Europe. Far away, in Gaul, Spain, 

 Africa, the Balkans, and Asia Minor, Roman muni- 

 cipalities were set up. Schools were opened ; aqueducts 

 were built ; law-courts were set up; beautiful buildings 

 and arches and colonnades were reared. I saw, only 

 the other day, two beautiful white marble baths dis- 

 covered in the heart of rural England, where such 

 things would not be known again for thirteen or 

 fourteen centuries. Roman roads sprawl across 

 Europe to-day. Let us be just. Rome had great 

 virtues. With all its faults it played a splendid part 

 in the civilization of Europe. 



