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Smith Goldwin. Lectures and Essays
Lectures and Essays
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AN ADDRESS TO THE OXFORD SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND ART
THE GREATNESS OF THE ROMANS
THE GREATNESS OF ENGLAND
THE GREAT DUEL OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
AN EPISODE OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR
THE LAMPS OF FICTION
AN ADDRESS DELIVERED TO THE OXFORD SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND ART AT THE DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
THE ASCENT OF MAN
PROPOSED SUBSTITUTES FOR RELIGION
THE LABOUR MOVEMENT
"WHAT IS CULPABLE LUXURY?"
A TRUE CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY
A WIREPULLER OF KINGS
"PALMERSTON
THE EARLY YEARS OF THE CONQUEROR OF QUEBEC
FALKLAND AND THE PURITANS
THE EARLY YEARS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
ALFREDUS REX FUNDATOR
THE LAST REPUBLICANS OF ROME
AUSTEN-LEIGH'S MEMOIR OF JANE AUSTEN
PATTISON'S MILTON
COLERIDGE'S LIFE OF KEBLE
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Goldwin Smith
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The legend which ascribes the assembly of centuries to the legislation of Servius probably belongs to the same class as the legend which ascribes trial by jury and the division of England into shires to the legislation of Alfred. Still the assembly of centuries existed; it was evidently ancient, belonging apparently to a stratum of institutions anterior to the assembly of tribes; and it was a constitution distributing political power and duties according to a property qualification which, in the upper grades, must, for the period, have been high, though measured by a primitive currency. The existence of such qualifications, and the social ascendency of wealth which the constitution implies, are inconsistent with the theory of a merely agricultural and military Rome. Who would think of framing such a constitution, say, for one of the rural districts of France?
Other indications of the real character of the prehistoric Rome might be mentioned. The preponderance of the infantry and the comparative weakness of the cavalry is an almost certain sign of democracy, and of the social state in which democracy takes its birth—at least in the case of a country which did not, like Arcadia or Switzerland, preclude by its nature the growth of a cavalry force, but on the contrary was rather favourable to it. Nor would it be easy to account for the strong feeling of attachment to the city which led to its restoration when it had been destroyed by the Gauls, and defeated the project of a migration to Veii, if Rome was nothing but a collection of miserable huts, the abodes of a tribe of marauders. We have, moreover, the actual traces of an industrial organization in the existence of certain guilds of artisans, which may have been more important at first than they were when the military spirit had become thoroughly ascendant.
