Part 21 (1/2)

VI Model III

Theodor Mommsen's ”Law of National Expansion,” in view of the present war, is interesting In his _History of Rome_, which was published in 1857, he says in substance that a young nation which has both vigor and culture is sure to absorb older nations whose vigor is waning and younger nations whose civilization is undeveloped, just as an educated young et the better of a noramus That nations, as well as individuals, should do this is, in Moht

In ancient times the Romans were the only people in ere coanization and a superior civilization The result was that they subdued the Greek states of the East, which were ripe for destruction, and dispossessed the people of lower grades of culture in the West The union of Italy was accoh the overthrow of the Samnite and Etruscan civilizations The Roman Empire was built upon the ruins of countless secondary nationalities which had long before beenhand of civilization When Latium became too narrow for the Ro the rest of Italy When Italy became too narrow, Caesar crossed the Alps

So far Mommsen The conclusions drawn froenious They arew in power and culture, so Brandenburg, since the days of the Great Elector, has been expanding in spirit and in territory

That illustrious prince began by absorbing Prussia Frederick the Great added Silesia and a slice of Poland Wilhel, Holstein, Alsace, and Lorraine by war, and Saxony and Bavaria by benevolent assiium by the former and Austria by the latter process Like the Rome of Caesar, the German Empire is noar on the one hand with decadent civilizations and on the other with a horde of barbarians What Greece and Carthage were to Roland are to Germany, while Russia is the modern counterpart of the Gauls, Britons, and Germans of the _Commentaries_ Such at least is what certain writers think the Germans think

VII Notes and Exercises

1 Note the framework: (Par 1) Mommsen's Law; (Par 2) Illustration 1--Rome; (Par 3) Illustration 2--Germany

2 Topics for short speeches: Theodor Mommsen; The Rise of the Roman Empire; The Greeks; The People of the West; The Sa; The Great Elector; Prussia; Frederick the Great; Silesia; Poland; Schleswig and Holstein; Alsace and Lorraine; Saxony and Bavaria; Carthage; Julius Caesar and his _Coraphs on the expansion of Spain, France, Russia, England, and the United States, or on any one of the

Caesar's _Commentaries on the Gallic War_ Macaulay's _Frederick the Great_ Southey's _Life of Nelson_ Parkman's _The Conspiracy of Pontiac_ Parkman's _Montcalm and Wolfe_ Fiske's _The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War_

IX Memorize

HUMANITY

I would not enter on raced with polishedsensibility, the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm

An inadvertent stepin the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside and let the reptile live

The creeping vered perhaps with venom, that intrudes, A visitor unwelcome, into scenes Sacred to neatness and repose, the alcove, The chamber, or refectory, may die; A necessary act incurs no blauiltless of offence, they range the air, Or take their pastied; and he that hunts Or har

The sum is this: If hts and claiuish theirs

Else they are all--the s that are-- As free to live and to enjoy that life, As God was free to forn wisdom, made them all

Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too

WILLIAM COWPER

CHAPTER XVI

EDITORIALS--CONSTRUCTIVE