...the same course to the same end. If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this, that free • nations cannot govern subject provinces....fall in pieces from mere incompetence for its duties. We talk often foolishly of the necessities of things, and we blame circumstances for the consequences...

...wages perpetually against democracy or despotism. There is another note of warning which, as Mr. Froude clearly shows, is sounded by the history of Rome,...his funeral oration on the man to whom through life he had acted either hostilely or disingenuously. He runs rapidly through the course of Roman political...

...the same course to the same end. If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this, that free nations cannot govern subject provinces....fall in pieces from mere incompetence for its duties. We. talk often foolishly of the necessities of things, and we blame circumstances for the consequences...

...wages perpetually against democracy or despotism. There is another note of warning which, as Mr. Froude clearly shows, is sounded by the history of Rome,...to share their own constitution, the constitution it self will fall in pieces from mere incompetence for its duties." In tracing his hero's life, Mr....

...Take, for example, the following: " If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches it is this, that free nations cannot govern subject provinces....fall in pieces from mere incompetence for its duties. "J * " Short Studies" &c., vol. ip 12. t Id., p. 12. I will ask the reader to observe for a moment...

...cannot govern subject provinces. If they are unable or unwilling to admit their dependencies to 20 share their own constitution, the constitution itself...fall in pieces from mere incompetence for its duties. We talk often foolishly of the necessities of things, and we blame circumstances for the consequences...

...it."* The historian, Froude, said : ''If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this, that free nations cannot govern subject provinces....constitution, the constitution itself will fall in pieces through mere incompetence for its duties." Or, as Lincoln more briefly taught : "Those who deny freedom...

...the same course to the same end. If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this, that free nations cannot govern subject provinces. If they are unable or unwilling to A admit their dependencies to share their constitution, the constitution itself will fall in pieces...

...teaches, it is this — that free nations cannot govern subject provinces. If they are unwilling or unable to admit their dependencies to share their own constitution,...pieces from mere incompetence for its duties." In this Mr. Froude only echoes the judgment of all historical scholars, and especially so of those scholars...

...to extend her privileges. . . . If there is one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this : that free nations cannot govern subject provinces....in pieces from mere incompetence for its duties." Of the disintegrating character of that period of Roman history that witnessed the passing of the old...