The great Italian historian, Guglielmo Ferrero, draws a likeness between the times and persons of Augustus Cæsar and Theodore Roosevelt. He points out that while Augustus Cæsar tried to check the downward tendencies in Rome, he helped them on; and so President Roosevelt is doing the same thing; that while he lets slip no opportunity of recalling to its citizens the rugged and hard duties to be fulfilled toward the race and toward society, at the same time he is laying plans that will redouble the wealth and power of the cities, the luxury of the upper and middle classes, enfeebling still more among the multitudes the very ideas that are so dear to him. And he questions whether America with its increase of riches and ancient Puritanic traditions will not be destroyed entirely by "the new spirit of pleasure-seeking." It is the same condition in which the Roman Empire was in the second century, no fear of war, invasion, or subjection to a foreign power, at the same time harboring within themselves that which will be destructive to the individual and the State; and that has been pointed out many times in this journal in the past.