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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: CHAPTER II INDIVIDUALISM IN HISTORY It is customary to ascribe the fall of the Roman Empire to the incursions of the Goths; and undoubtedly it was the Goths who at the death divided the Roman Estate; but to attribute the death to them would be like arguing a man's children to be his murderers because they shared his inheritance. Rome perished because the forces both within and without which had contributed to her maintenance were no longer strong enough to resist the forces that were hostile to it. The main force which had lifted ancient Rome above all the other cities of Latium was a sentiment, the sentiment of patriotism; and this sentiment in ultimate analysis was built upon a kind of self-sacrifice. So long as there remained in the Empire a sufficient number of citizens animated by the willingness to sacrifice self to the State and possessed of the courage and strength to make this sentiment effectual, so long there was a force which, unless it encountered the same order of sentiment more pure and better organised than itself, could be counted on to triumph over external foes. But when this sentiment was devoured by the self- indulgence that follows like a shark in the wake of wealth, the fate of Rome depended no longer on herself, but on the wheel of Fortune. And it must be admitted that for centuries Fortune was very kind to Rome; it is impossible to read herhistory during the years which followed the reign of Constantine without wondering that so rotten a carcass could so long hang together. Rome was never conquered. There was during the period of her decay no organised community capable of conquering at all. She was never conquered: she fell to pieces; and a concourse of most politic worms nibbled away her once so shapely limbs. We must look at th...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781458828477
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 204
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458828476
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 372 gr


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