By H. G. Wells
ISBN-10: 040303082X
ISBN-13: 9780403030828
E-book can have various typos, lacking textual content, pictures, or index. dealers can obtain a loose scanned reproduction of the unique ebook (without typos) from the writer. 1920. Excerpt: ... XXVII the 2 WESTERN REPUBLICS1 § 1. The Beginnings of the Latins. § 2. a brand new type of country. § three. The Carthaginian Republic of wealthy males. § four. the 1st Punic battle. § five. Cato the Elder and the Spirit of Cato. § 6. the second one Punic conflict. § 7. The 3rd Punic battle. § eight. How the Punic struggle Undermined Roman Liberty. § nine. comparability of the Roman Republic with a latest country. it really is now essential to take in the historical past of the 2 nice republics of the Western Mediterranean, Rome and Carthage, and to inform how Rome succeeded in retaining for a few centuries an empire even more than that accomplished through the conquests of Alexander. yet this new empire was once, as we will try and clarify, a political constitution differing very profoundly in its nature from any of the nice Oriental empires that had preceded it. nice adjustments within the texture of human society and within the stipulations of social interrelations were occurring for a few centuries. the flexibleness and transferability of cash was once turning into an influence and, like every powers in inexpert palms, a hazard in human affairs. It was once changing the kin of wealthy males to the kingdom and to their poorer fellow electorate. This new empire, the Roman empire, in contrast to the entire previous empires, used to be no longer the construction of a very good conqueror. No Sargon, no Thothmes, no Nebuchadnezzar, no Cyrus nor Alexander nor Chandragupta, used to be its fountain head. It used to be made through a republic. It grew by way of a type of necessity via new concentrating and unifying forces that have been gradually amassing strength in human affairs. 1 a truly handy instruction manual for this and the following chapters is Matheson's Skeleton define of Roman background. yet first it can be crucial to provide a few inspiration of the kingdom of affaire in Italy within the centuries instantly previous th...
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The former has no mental continuity with anything beyond itself; it is a little self-contained globe, of experience that, serves its purpose and ends; but the latter picks up from its mother, and bands on to its offspring. All the mammals, except for the two genera we have named, had already before the lower Eocene age arrived at this stage of pre-adult dependence and imitation. They were all more or less imitative in youth and capable of a certain modicum of education; they all, as a part of their development, received a certain amount of care and example and even direction from their mother.
It is a thick skull, thicker than that of any living race of men, and. it has a brain capacity intermediate between that of Pithecanthropus and man. This creature has been named Eoanthropus, the dawn man. In the same gravel-pits were found teeth of rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and the leg-bone of a deer with marks upon it that may be cuts. A curious bat-shaped instrument of elephant bone has also been found. There was moreover a jaw-bone among these scattered remains, which was at first assumed naturally enough to belong to Eoanthropus, but which it was afterwards suggested was probably that of a chimpanzee.
This species of Homo had certainly a very different mentality from ours; its individuals were not merely simpler and lower than we are, they were on another line. It may be they did not speak at all, or very sparingly. They had nothing that we should call a language. 2 The Daily Life of the First Men In Worthington Smith's Man the Primeval Savage there is a very vividly written description of early Palolithic life, from which much of the following account is borrowed. In the original, Mr. Worthington Smith assumes a more extensive social life, a larger community, and a more definite division of labour among its members than is altogether justifiable in the face of such subsequent writings as J.
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