Sublime

From this fact we may draw a double conclusion one is, that the origin of domestic institutions among the nations of this race is anterior to the period when its different branches separated; the other is, that the origin of political institutions is, on the contrary, later than this separation.

Thus at Rome all races were associated and mingled; there were Latins, Trojans, and Greeks; there were, a little later, Sabines, and Etruscans. Of the several hills, the Palatine was the Latin city, after having been the city of Evander. The Capitoline, after having been the dwelling-place of the companions of Hercules, became the home of the Sabin

While the races that do not accord to the individual a property in the soil, allow him at least a right to the fruits of his labor, — that is to say, to his harvest, — precisely the contrary custom prevailed among the Greeks.

If the absence of Roman democracy had merely been the fault of particular autocrats, we should have at least seen large-scale democracies flourishing in other places, like in Sassanian Persia, Gupta India, or Han China. But prior to the development of modern information technology, there are no examples of large-scale democracies anywhere. It shoul

Riches have become the only object of men's desires, because wealth gives power. The man of noble race marries the daughter of the rich plebeian, and “marriage confounds the races.”

The same revolution, under forms slightly varied, took place at Athens, at Sparta, at Rome, in all the cities, in fine, whose history is known to us. Everywhere it was the work of the aristocracy; everywhere it resulted in suppressing political royalty and continuing religious royalty.

“As the kings displayed pride and rigor in their commands, the greater part of the Greeks took away their power, and left them only the care of religion.”465

The domestic hearth had a high priest, who was the father of the family; the hearth of the cury, had its curio, or phratriarch; every tribe, in the same manner, had its religious chief, whom the Athenians called the king of the tribe. It was also necessary that the city religion should have its supreme priest.

What we know with the greatest certainty concerning the client is, that he could not leave one patron and choose another, and that he was bound, from father to son, to the same family. If we knew only this, it would be sufficient to convince us that his condition could not be a very desirable one. Let us add that the client was not a proprietor of