The Roman Fate An Essay in Interpretation

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But is this a mere matter of course? Must present civilizations pass on to the same inevitable doom ? Have not mankind in the experience of ages learnt enough 2 to enable them to avert so pitiful 1 See Prof J B Bury, The Idea of Progress, 1920.
2 M c Dougall p 28.
THE ROMAN FATE 43 an end? For, that they can by their own voluntary action affect their own subsequent well-being, many instances of successful measures unquestionably shew. That the mere change of economic conditions 1 will not of it
...self serve to account for the decay of old civilizations, is a just inference from the known facts. Some other and more universal cause must be found, if we are to reach a sound theory.
The new inquirer 2 starts with the general proposition that civilization depends on the quality of the human stuff. If this be sound, organizations and institutions are comparatively indifferent : healthy humanity will make any system work sufficiently well. Civilizations fail because they die off at the top. That is, the supply of best members of a society, those whose leadership gave to that society its healthy social and moral character, fails.


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