But the example, which for us is perhaps the most forcible of all, is to be found in the history of Rome, during her years of widest activity.

We are told to look at such men as Cicero or as Caesar--above all to such men as Caesar--and to remember what a reality life was to them.

Caesar certainly had little religion enough; and what he may have had, played no part in making his life earnest.

He took the world as he found it, as all healthy men have taken it; and, as it is said, all healthy men will still continue to take it.

Nor was such a life as Caesar's peculiar to himself.