...twentieth-century historian and exile Michael Rostovtzeff: “Is it possible to extend a higher civilization to the lower classes without debasing its standard...diluting its quality to the vanishing point? Is not every civilization bound to decay as soon as it begins to penetrate the masses?” 82 CHAPTER TWO PETRO PRIMO...

...46 In Men and Ideas he quotes Rostovtzeffs The Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire: ... the ultimate problem remains like a ghost, ever present and unlaid: Is it possible to extend higher civilization to the lower classes without debasing its standard and diluting its quality to...

...a nuisance by many more'. 28 Rostovtzeff felt much the same disquiet. ‘Is not every civilization bound to decay as soon as it begins to penetrate the masses?' he asked.m Such writers did not argue, as does Lucan's Caesar, in, of all places, a speech addressed...

...problem remains like a ghost, even present and unlaid: Is it possible to extend a higher civilization to the lower classes without debasing its standard...diluting its quality to the vanishing point? Is not every civilization bound to decay as soon as it begins to penetrate the masses?” (‘1925; 219571 541)....

...diluting it to the vanishing point. And then follows the pessimistic query, "Is not every civilization bound to decay as soon as it begins to penetrate the masses?" The volume has the usual critical appendages, excellent indexes of names and subjects, and of papyri and...

...monumental history of the economy of antiquity, asked: ‘Is it possible to extend a higher civilization to the lower classes without debasing its standard...diluting its quality to the vanishing point? Is not every civilization bound to decay as soon as it begins to penetrate the masses?' 66 But the view that the...

...civilization will not last unless it be a civilization, not of one class, but of the masses. . . But the ultimate problem remains like a ghost, ever present and unlaid. Is it possible to extend a higher civilization to the lower classes without debasing its standard and diluting its quality to the vanishing...

...civilization will not last unless it be a civilization not of one class, but of the masses. . . But the ultimate problem remains like a ghost, ever present and unlaid: Is it possible to extend a higher civilization to the lower classes without debasing its standards and diluting its quality to the vanishing...

...civilization will not last unless it be a civilization not of one class, but of the masses. . . But the ultimate problem remains like a ghost, ever present and unlaid: Is it possible to extend a higher civilization to the lower classes without debasing its standards and diluting its quality to the vanishing...

...last unless it be a civilization not of one class, but of the masses. ... Is not every civilization bound to decay as soon as it begins to penetrate the masses?" 107 He says specifically of us moderns: "We on our part have greatly developed what we inherited from...