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80 different. To the Hellene the agricultural life only is a morally perfect condition; his poet has given expression to this feeling in the beautiful words:—

And to the Roman poet of a period troubled by wars peaceful agriculture is not only the most ideal condition of human life, but also the happy state of innocence of primeval mankind:—

Ut prisca gens mortalium Paterna rura bobus exercet suis,

says Horace in his celebrated epode 'Beatus ille;' and of any more ancient period he had never heard. George Rawlinson very oddly says, 'It was a fashion among the Greeks to praise the simplicity and honesty of the nomade races, who were less civilised than themselves; for the passages of literature quoted by him in confirmation of this assertion lay no stress on the nomadic element. But