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When she conquered Egypt and Asia. having populations the same as those countries possess today. of low consuming power and great tenacity of life. the Roman found he was no competitor in the growing of crops and in other industrial enterprises. The Roman of those days was as the AngloSaxon of todaya man of great vitality. requiring excellent nurture. the best of food. and plenty of it. When he came into competition with. when he conquered and undertook to govern. when he absorbed the Asiatic races. people with a low vitality and great tenacity of life. human machines who could subsist upon the least of food apprehend that. instead of being opposed. France and England and perform the most of work. the Roman farmer was destroyed would be glad if we would acquire distant islands and thereby and the Roman Empire passed away. . place ourselves in theposition they occupy in relation. to the balJames Bryce. in speaking ofthis period of Roman history. says: ance of the world. The ostentation of humility which the subtle policy of Augustus had con- The following from Henry ClewssWeekly Financial Review ceived and the jealous hypocrisy of Tiberius maintained was gradually of June. 1898. is in point: dropped by their successors. until despotism became at last recognized in principle as the government of the Roman Empire.