Author: American Ethical Union

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-24

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780483800885

Excerpt from Ethical Addresses: Lectures Given Before the American Ethical Societies Power, power in all its forms, was at the command Of the Roman Emperor. The lust Of power is said to be one of the mainsprings of human action. The master of the Roman world had the opportunity, if he chose to glut himself with power, to give himself over to the indulgence of it almost without restraint, until the very excess of it might bring with it its natural retribution and unseat his reason, as it did in many an instance. And all the other forms of enjoyment which mortals ordinarily crave, were no less at a Roman emperor's disposal. If power is sweet, so is flattery; and _the incense of flattery was constantly burned before him, even by the Senate, which, once the bulwark of repub lican freedom, had degenerated into a mere simulacrum of its former self. When the emperor spoke, the sena. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.