This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...the service, and made to lend lustre to the ancestral title. Many of the families claimed descent from the immortals. The art of poetry obsequiously offered its aid to embellish the story, and to invest the subjects of the tale with a halo of sanctity, itaiy. Turning to Italy we are met at the outset by one important ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...the service, and made to lend lustre to the ancestral title. Many of the families claimed descent from the immortals. The art of poetry obsequiously offered its aid to embellish the story, and to invest the subjects of the tale with a halo of sanctity, itaiy. Turning to Italy we are met at the outset by one important difference between it and Greece in the circumstances of the settlement of the Aryans in each of the two peninsulas. It is a matter of history that Italy is singularly poor in memorials of the primitive period, and presents in this respect a remarkable contrast to other fields of civilization.1 A long succession of phases of political development must have intervened between the constitutions which the poems of Homer and the Germania of Tacitus delineate, and the oldest organization of the Roman community. But, for all that, we are not left without evidence of the gradual growth of class distinctions in Italy. The fact that the Aryans who settled in Italy had no conquered populations of much moment to deal with assumes first-rate importance in this connection. It accounts for one of the striking peculiarities and influential factors of the Latin nation, namely, the complete equality of rights that prevailed. The truth is, in this matter they did but carry on the tradition of earlier ages, when as has been observed before, all members of the Aryan community stood on a footing of equality. Unlike their neighbours, the un-Aryan Etrurians, whose form of government was based on a rigid aristocracy, administered by an hereditary race or caste of priestly nobility, the Latins steadily maintained an equality of rights, but these rights were not extended to foreigners. The word liber, "free," is interesting at once to the sociologist and philo...
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