CHAPTER XXII.

EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM -- HISTORIC.

_ROME._

Vigor of the Early Romans -- their Virtues and Vices; their Rigorous Laws; their Defective Education; their Contempt of Labor. -- Slavery: its Horrors and Brutalizing Influence. -- Education Confined to the Arts of Politics and War; it transformed Courage into Cruelty, and Fortitude into Stoicism. -- Robbery and Bribery. -- The Vices of Greece and Carthage imported into Rome. -- Slaves construct all the great Public Works; they Revolt, and the Legions Slaughter them. -- The Gothic Invasion. -- Rome Falls. -- False Philosophy and Superficial Education promoted Selfishness. -- Deification of Abstractions, and Scorn of Men and Things. -- Universal Moral Degradation. -- Neglect of Honest Men and Promotion of Demagogues. -- The Decline of Morals and Growth of Literature. -- Darwin’s Law of Reversion, through Selfishness to Savagery. -- Contest between the Rich and the Poor. -- Logic, Rhetoric, and Ruin. 263