“Rome … did not conquer the nations. She annexed them, by means of a coalition with the local capitalist group in each. … Wherever the strain between the local privileged class and its proletariat was intense, Rome found natural allies in the former.”

— Bouck White

Source: The Call of the Carpenter (1914), p. 9

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