THE GRANDEUR AND DECADENCE

OF THE ROMANS.

CONSIDERATIONS ON THE CAUSES

OF THE

GRANDEUR AND DECADENCE
OF THE ROMANS:

A NEW TRANSLATION,

TOGETHER WITH

AN INTRODUCTION, CRITICAL AND ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES,
AND AN ANALYTICAL INDEX:

BY

JEHU BAKER:

BEING INCIDENTALLY A RATIONAL DISCUSSION OF THE PHENOMENA
AND THE TENDENCIES OF HISTORY IN GENERAL.

Those whom we call ancients were really new in all things, and formed, properly
speaking, the infancy of the human race; and, as we have added to their knowledge
the experience of all succeeding centuries, It is in ourselves that may be found that
antiquity which we reverence in them.-PASOAL.

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.

1889.