Modern Civilization and Ancient Rome
Mr. Frederic Harrison had this to say of the present at the Nineteenth Century Club not long since: “We boast about our great mechanical and scientific progress, but we still see barbarism in China, Africa, and India, terrible slums in our cities, and recrudescences in savagery in the lynchings we read about almost daily. Our multiplication of mechanical aids has vulgarized life and tended to luxury and unbridled power, similar to that seen in the time of Nero.” And those who are most familiar with Rome’s life will clearly see that we are paralleling it in more ways than one. God gave us the inspired history of Rome as a warning. But O how few believe it! National pride and political prejudice blind the great majority to the positive dangers on every side.