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Updated: June 19, 2025
Do not nations like beings have an active youth, a resplendent prime, and a more or less prolonged old age ending in death? A modern democratic Rome, good heavens! The modern Romes are named Paris, London, Chicago. So he contented himself with saying: "But pending this great renovation of the people, don't you think that you ought to be prudent?
My father said it would take a lifetime of patient study to learn thoroughly all that can to-day be learned of what we call ancient Rome the Rome of the Cæsars; and how many Romes existed before that, of which we can know nothing, save through legend and tradition!
In the meanwhile to its children from other lands it means Rome above all the other Romes; and on us, its step-children of different faiths or unfaiths, its prison-house if we choose so to think of the Vatican has a supreme claim, if we love the sculpture of pagan Rome or the painting of Christian Rome.
From them, as from the golden and rosy clouds of morning, dawns at last the true sun of its unquestionable history. Every boy has his own fables, just as the Romes and the Englands of the world have their Romuli and their Arthurs, their suckling wolves and their granite-sheathed swords. Do they not reflect each other? I tell the tale as 'tis left in me.
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