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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE III. COMPARISON BETWEEN GREEK AND ROMAN ARCHITECTURE?PECULIARITIES OF DIFFERENCE?THEIR CAUSES. The chief characteristic of the Roman people is, as we have already observed, their genius for organising and governing. The earlier conquering nations with whose history we have some acquaintance were anything but civilisers; their conquests had no other object than the acquisition of slaves and treasure; they lowered rather than raised the countries they subjugated. The Romans may have been sometimes rapacious masters, more eager to enrich themselves than to spread the light of civilisation among the nations they subdued; but such was not the prevailing character of the Roman conquests. We need not recall the history of the long and bloody strife which preceded the ultimate triumph of the Romans over the nations of Italy;?a war more social than political, since the question at issue was the preservation of the wealth and influence of a handful of patrician families, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the effort of the people to emancipate themselves from a condition bordering on serfdom, and to conquer the rights of citizens. This history has been written, and written well, by one of the most distinguished of our literary contemporaries, M. Merime'e; who, under the modest title of Essais sur la guerre sociale, brings most vividly before us the terrible contests of the latter period of the Republic, and reveals to us (although that is not the object of his work) the various sources whence the Romans derived their arts. In the early days of the Republic, the Romans had no Art of their own, as had the Egyptians, the Orientals, and the Greeks. The true view of their history exhibits to us a people inconsiderable in number, governed by a few patricians, intent upon aggr...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217860024
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 196
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217860028
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 358 gr


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