Identifier: historyofciviliz00reic (find matches)
Title: History of civilization, being a course of lectures on the origin and development of the main institutions of mankind
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Reich, Emil, 1854-1910
Subjects: Civilization
Publisher: Cincinnati, O. : The author
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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monwealths ever since the beginning of our era. Romeis the father, the originator of nearly every political andecclesiastical institution of the civilized Christian world.Rome is the fountainhead of more than a majority of ourdomestic and social institutions. Rome is the lawgiver to over 400,000,000 of people ofour age. Rome is the source of two-thirds of all languagesspoken in modern Christian countries. Rome after havingbeen the military and political centre of all Europe andAsia and Africa, became the spiritual centre of all thesevast countries, and to the present day her sway over theminds and destinies of people is enormous. Such an influence, such an historical position stands un-paralleled. There have been large cities, powerful cities,great centers of government, science and art, as Babylon,Nineveh, Peking, Paris, but their influence lasted onlyfor a while, for a (^■vf hundred years, and after that timeother cities assumed their part. But the city of Romenever had a rival. k
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Temple of the Djoskuni. Tempk oi Jupitei C^pitoliuus. Temple ot Jupiter Toodo^ F^tiuiaiiuui Temple o( Saturn, Temple of VsspasAicb of Tiberius. FORUM ROMANUM. .\is ood Temple cpf Juoo Mooeta.MS of DomitiAD. Rostra ot the Temple of Caesar. Rome—Political and Social Institutions. 245 All Roman greatness is attached, as it were, rivetedupon this one city. In Greece several cities were alter-nately the great leaders of the current of civilization. There were great philosophers in Athens, but therewere also great philosophers in South Italy. Pyth-agoras taught in Crotona, Zeno and Xenophane inElea, Archimedes in Syracuse in Sicily, Heraclitusin Ephesus, in Asia Minor, Zeuxis in Croton, Euclidand Eratosthenes in Egypt, Democritos in Abdera, andso forth. But none of the great Roman writers, phil-osophers, jurists or statesmen ever thrived elsewhere thanin Rome. There is not one single Roman name of any importancebut he was a child of the city of Rome. He might have beenborn in some other p

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