But it reveals unmistakably the Roman character of that civilization.
The uniformity of this civilization was crossed by local variations, but these do not contradict its Roman character.

If the provincial felt sometimes the claims of his province and raised a cry that sounds like 'Africa for the Africans' he acted on a geographical, not on any native or national idea.

He was demanding individual life for a Roman section of the Empire.

He was anticipating, perhaps, the birth of new nations out of the Romanized populations.

He was not attempting to recall the old pre-Roman system.