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exact center. This mountain, which is 9,700 feet 

 high, was believed by the Greeks to be the highest 

 mountain in the world. On top of this mountain 

 the Greek gods were supposed to live. The Greeks 

 believed that they were the descendants and fa- 

 vorites of the gods, and that the *' barbarians" 

 were mere nobodies intended to serve as conve- 

 niences to the Greeks. 



The ancient Eomans also considered all non- 

 Romans as *' barbarians'' — including the Greeks. 

 Many of the so-called ' ' barbarians ' ' were superior 

 to the Romans, but they were always treated by 

 the Romans with contempt. The *^ barbarians" 

 were the ^ * agricultural implements" of the Ro- 

 mans, and the butchers who killed each other for 

 the pastime of the Romans on Roman holidays. 

 A Roman could take the life of his * ^barbarian" 

 slave as freely as we today kill cows. 



Moral feeling has developed very greatly dur- 

 ing the period of human history. Men today in- 

 clude within the range of their moral obligations 

 many thousand times more human beings than the 

 lowest known men do. This moral expansion has 

 been brought about by the improved means of 

 travel and communication, by railroads, tele- 

 graphs, telephones, and newspapers, and by the 

 growth of the s^mipathetic imagination. When 

 people get to mixing with other peoples, they find 

 out that other peoples are very similar to them- 

 selves. They are in this way led to put them- 



