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...CAESAR AND CHRIST-Will Durant-Simon & Schuster...
...spite of his seven-league-boot habits of scholarship and composition, Will Durant is a master of synthesis arid luminous narrative. Caesar and Christ, third volume of the monumental Story of Civilization which he expects to finish by 1955 (already published: Our Oriental Heritage; The Life of Greece), may lack moral passion. But as clear exposition of an immensely complicated story, it is magnificent...
...balance republican government, yet forgot its secret when the clamor of pressure groups broke down the old tradition of limited terms of office. A Cincinnatus, called from his plow to save the State, returned to his farm as soon as the crisis was over. But when Sulla and Julius Caesar violated the precedent, the Republic sank back into the monarchy from which it had sprung...
...shortsightedness of the republican aristocrats and businessmen pushed the plebs and the slaves into the arms of demagogues and military leaders. From 146 B.C., year of the destruction of Carthage, to 49 B.C., when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon on his way to make himself dictator, the story of Rome is told in terms that should be familiar to everyone who has seen a Hitler and a Mussolini rise to power with the support of the multitudes. Unlike modern precursors and advocates of totalitarianism, the Gracchi, Marius, Mark Antony and Julius Caesar had no great desire to overturn republican institutions...
Will Durant, giving full, colorful treatment to Roman culture and everyday life, does not labor the modern political and social analogies. But no reader of Caesar and Christ can fail to miss them...