The Historical Child: Paidology; The Science of the ChildChrisman, Oscar
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The Historical Child: Paidology; The Science of the Child
Chrisman, Oscar
Children; Manners and customs
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CHAPTER X
THE CHILD IN ROME
=Characteristics.= It is one of the world problems to determine just the
cause for the origin and building up of a great city from which arose a
great nation as Rome. This is one of the great puzzling questions that
seems can never be correctly answered. But whatever the cause of the
origin of the Romans, there is no question about their accomplishments.
From a few mud huts on the bank of the Tiber river filled with savage or
semi-civilized people there grew up one of the very greatest ruling
forces the world has ever known, conquering the known world and
controlling all from the center at Rome with power and wisdom that seem
miraculous. The Romans possessed intense personality and keen power of
organization and control. They believed in the state and that each
individual owed it a duty, and yet they conceived that the state existed
for the individual and needed each one as well as the individual needed
the state. This view of the state and the individual enabled the Romans
to base the state on law and to respect law when once established.
Through this view they became lovers of law and order. They were
essentially practical and from their attacking the problems of the world
in a business and thoughtful way they became strong in administrative
ability and through which they evolved a sound jurisprudence, which was
bequeathed to humanity. The old Romans were men of both moral and
physical vigor and of strong thought; they were utilitarian, proud,
overbearing, selfish, cruel, and rapacious; with strong self-will they
met humanity and nature and conquered both, which is shown on nature by
remains of roads, bridges, aqueducts, and other structures, while their
language yet dominates a large part of the world and their laws a yet
still larger portion.
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