VII. 



LOTZE ON THE UNION OF SOUL AND 



BODY. 



PRELUDE ON CURRENT EVENTS. 



The illustrious Cornelia, mother of the Roman 

 Gracchi, was assisted in the education of her sons 

 by eminent Greeks. Tiberius Gracchus, as you re- 

 member, was present at the destruction of Carthage, 

 in the year 146. Called to a position in Eastern 

 Spain, he passed through Etruria, the old Roman 

 province lying in the angle between the Tiber and 

 the Mediterranean toward the north from Rome. 

 He saw that the middle class of agriculturists had 

 died out. Slaves in chains were performing manual 

 labor on the great estates which are said by his- 

 torians to have ruined Rome. The unemployed in 

 the city on the Seven Hills were bravely and even 

 tenderly remembered by Tiberius Gracchus, although 

 they contained explosive elements, idle tramps and 

 refuse, which Shakspeare, by the mouth of Corio- 

 lanus, has described as reek of the rotten fens. 

 Pagan although he was, this Gracchus, educated in 

 the Greek philosophy, resolved to do what he could 



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