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Among these were praetorianism in the capital and the great provincial towns; subjection of land and peasantry to military seigneurs, who gradually detached themselves from the central control; wars undertaken abroad for no better reason than the employment of soldiery feared at home; consequent expansion of the territorial empire beyond the administrative capacity of the central government; development of the 'tribute-children' system of recruiting into a scourge of the rayas and a continual offence to neighbouring states, and the supplementing of that system by acceptance of any and every alien outlaw who might offer himself for service: lastly, revival of the dormant crusading spirit of Europe, which reacted on the Osmanlis, begetting in them an Arabian fanaticism and disposing them to revert to the obscurantist spirit of the earliest Moslems.
Domitian massacred senators with impunity, and only fell 'postquam cerdonibus esse timendus coeperat. If an autocracy does not rest on the army, which leads to the chaos of praetorianism, it must rely on 'panem et circenses. Hence it has some of the worst faults of democracy, without its advantages. As Mr.
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