To the present munificence of nature must be added the inheritance of the past.

The poor Pagans of great Rome left all their property to the Pope who damns them.
They left him gigantic aqueducts, prodigious sewers, and roads which we find still in use, after twenty centuries of traffic.

They left him the Coliseum, for his Capuchins to preach in.

They left him an example of an administration without an equal in history.

But the heritage was accepted without the responsibilities attached to it.
I will no longer conceal from you that this magnificent territory appeared to me in the first place most unworthily cultivated.