permanence. Sooner or later it will disappear, as savagery is disappearing, as the rudest types of inchoate human society have disappeared. The second method by which nations have been made may be called the Roman method; and we may briefly describe it as conquest with incorporation, but without representation. The secret of Rome’s wonderful strength lay in the fact that she incorporated the vanquished peoples into her own body politic.… Never before had so many people been brought under one government