Every step in securing the subjection of the conquered country was attended with the utmost care in providing for its peace and internal order.

Agricola reconciled the Britons to the Roman government by reconciling them to the Roman manners.

He moulded that fierce nation by degrees to soft and social customs, leading them imperceptibly into a fondness for baths, for gardens, for grand houses, and all the commodious elegancies of a cultivated life.

He diffused a grace and dignity over this new luxury by the introduction of literature.

He invited instructors in all the arts and sciences from Rome; and he sent the principal youth of Britain to that city to be educated at his own expense.