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or Rome in its later years, with a great modern State 

 where the thronging millions who make up the bulk 

 of the population are wage-earners, who themselves 

 decide their own destinies ; a State which is able in 

 time of need to put into the field armies, composed 

 exclusively of its own citizens, more numerous than 

 any which the world has ever before seen, and with 

 -a record of fighting in the immediate past with which 

 there is nothing in the annals of antiquity to com- 

 pare. 



END OP VOLUME ONE 



