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Re: 29-3-'04 for refences & crossconnections ...
THE
SLAVE SYSTEM
had spread to
most industries
and to every sort of work
that could be done by gangs.
Mines and metallurgical operations,
the rowing of galleys,
roadmaking and big building operations
were all largely slave occupations.
And almost all domestic services were performed by slaves.
There were poor freemen
and there were freed-men in the cities and upon the countryside, working for themselves or even working for wages.
They were artisans,
supervisors and so forth,
workers of a new money-paid class
working in competition with slave-workers;
but we do not know what proportion they made of the general population?
It probably varied widely in different places and at different perionds!
And there were also many modeifications of slavery,
from the slave that was chained at night and driven with whips to the farm or the quarry,
to the slave whose master found it advantageous to leave him to cultivate
his patch or work his craft and own his wife like a freemman,
provided he paid in a satisfactory quittance
to his owner .............
~!@#$#@!~
There were armed slaves.
At the opening of the period of the Punic wars, in 264 B.C..
the Etruscan sport of setting slaves to fight for their lives was revived in Rome:
it grew rapidly fashionable;
and soon every great Roman rich man kept a retinue of gladiators,
who sometimes fought in the arena
but whose real business it was to act as his bodyguard of bullies.
And also there were learned slaves.
The conquests of the later Republic were among the highly civilised cities of Greece, North Africa, and Asia Minor;
and they brought in
many highly educated captives.
The tutor of a younf Roman of good family was usually a slave.
A rich man would have a Greek slave as librarian,
and slave secretaries and learned men.
He would keep his poet as he would keep a performing dog.
In this atmosphere of slavery
the traditions of modern literary scholarship and criticism,
meticulous, timid and quarrelsome,
were evolved.
There were enterprising people who bought intelligent boy slaves
and had them educated for sale.
Slaves were trained as book copyists,
as jewellers,
and for endless skilled callings.
~!@#$#@!~
But there were also very considerable changes
in the position of a slave during the 400 years between
the opening days of conquest under the republic of rich men
and the days of desintegration that followed
the great pestilence.
In the second century B.C. war-captives were abundant,
manners gross and brutal;
the slave had no rights
and there was scarcely
an outrage our myDi-reader can
imagine that was not
practised upon slaves
in those
days?
But
already in
the first century A.D.
there was a perceptible improvement in the attitude
of the Roman civilisation towards slavery!
Captives were not so abundant for one thing,
and slaves were dearer.
And slave-owners began to realise that the profit and comfort they got
from their slaves increased with the self-respect of these
unfortunates?
But also the moral tone of the community was rising,
and a sense of justice was becoming
effective.
The higher mentality of Greece
was qualifying the olf Roman harshness.
Restrictions upon cruelty were made,
a master might no longer sell his slave to fight beasts,
a slave was given property rights in what was calles his peculium,
slaves were paid wages as an encouragement and stimulus,
a form of slave marriage was recognised.
Very many forms of agriculture
do not lend themselves to gang working,
or require gang workers except at certain seasons.
In regions where such conditions prevailed the slave presently became a serf,
paying his owner part of his produce or working for him
at certain seasons.
~!@#$#@!~
When we begin to realise
how essentially this great Latin and Greek-speaking Roman Empire of the first two centuries A.D. was a slave state
and how small was the minority who had any pride or freedom
in their myDi-lives,
we lay our hands on the clues to its decay
and collapse!
~!@#$#@!~
There was little of what we would call family life,
few homes of temperate living and active thought and study;
schools and colleges were few and far between.
The free will and the free mind
were nowhere to be found!
The great roads,
the ruins of splendid buildings,
the tradition of law and power it left
for the astonishment of succeeding generations
must not conceal from us
that all its outer splendour
was built upon thwarted wills,
stifled intelligence,
and crippled and perverted desires?!
~!@#$#@!~
And even the minority
who lorded it over that wide realm of subjugation and of restraint and
forced labour
were uneasy and unhappy in their souls;
art, literature, science and philosophy, which are the fruits of free and
happy minds,
waned in that atmosphere?
There was much copying and imitation,
an abundance of artistic artificers, much slavish pedantry among
the servile men of learning,
but the whole Roman Empire in four centuries produced nothing to set beside the bold and noble intellectual activities
of the comparatively little city of Athens
during its one century of greatness!
Athens decayed under the Roman sceptre ...
The science of Alexandria decayed!
The spirit if man, it seemed,
was decaying in those
myDi-days ...
~!@#$#@!~
AND BASTA again for now!
Time to sleep enough instead of giving in to chaos and madness?
ALL we need is LOVE:
and clear water, clean food, our own bed and a little help
from our friends!
Everything else is extra luxury ...
SO:
sleep well, sweet dreams and
a soft awakening into a world that is,
after all, not really so much different of that time
we were talking about?
The total amount of people has been rising
like the level of our seas ....
WE are still learning how to manage our own private affairs,
how to take care of each other and 'our' world!
There is a lot of work to do for people who care about people ...
If we don't do that {or the opposite} we might as well
not have lived at all!?
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~
THE
SLAVE SYSTEM
had spread to
most industries
and to every sort of work
that could be done by gangs.
Mines and metallurgical operations,
the rowing of galleys,
roadmaking and big building operations
were all largely slave occupations.
And almost all domestic services were performed by slaves.
There were poor freemen
and there were freed-men in the cities and upon the countryside, working for themselves or even working for wages.
They were artisans,
supervisors and so forth,
workers of a new money-paid class
working in competition with slave-workers;
but we do not know what proportion they made of the general population?
It probably varied widely in different places and at different perionds!
And there were also many modeifications of slavery,
from the slave that was chained at night and driven with whips to the farm or the quarry,
to the slave whose master found it advantageous to leave him to cultivate
his patch or work his craft and own his wife like a freemman,
provided he paid in a satisfactory quittance
to his owner .............
~!@#$#@!~
There were armed slaves.
At the opening of the period of the Punic wars, in 264 B.C..
the Etruscan sport of setting slaves to fight for their lives was revived in Rome:
it grew rapidly fashionable;
and soon every great Roman rich man kept a retinue of gladiators,
who sometimes fought in the arena
but whose real business it was to act as his bodyguard of bullies.
And also there were learned slaves.
The conquests of the later Republic were among the highly civilised cities of Greece, North Africa, and Asia Minor;
and they brought in
many highly educated captives.
The tutor of a younf Roman of good family was usually a slave.
A rich man would have a Greek slave as librarian,
and slave secretaries and learned men.
He would keep his poet as he would keep a performing dog.
In this atmosphere of slavery
the traditions of modern literary scholarship and criticism,
meticulous, timid and quarrelsome,
were evolved.
There were enterprising people who bought intelligent boy slaves
and had them educated for sale.
Slaves were trained as book copyists,
as jewellers,
and for endless skilled callings.
~!@#$#@!~
But there were also very considerable changes
in the position of a slave during the 400 years between
the opening days of conquest under the republic of rich men
and the days of desintegration that followed
the great pestilence.
In the second century B.C. war-captives were abundant,
manners gross and brutal;
the slave had no rights
and there was scarcely
an outrage our myDi-reader can
imagine that was not
practised upon slaves
in those
days?
But
already in
the first century A.D.
there was a perceptible improvement in the attitude
of the Roman civilisation towards slavery!
Captives were not so abundant for one thing,
and slaves were dearer.
And slave-owners began to realise that the profit and comfort they got
from their slaves increased with the self-respect of these
unfortunates?
But also the moral tone of the community was rising,
and a sense of justice was becoming
effective.
The higher mentality of Greece
was qualifying the olf Roman harshness.
Restrictions upon cruelty were made,
a master might no longer sell his slave to fight beasts,
a slave was given property rights in what was calles his peculium,
slaves were paid wages as an encouragement and stimulus,
a form of slave marriage was recognised.
Very many forms of agriculture
do not lend themselves to gang working,
or require gang workers except at certain seasons.
In regions where such conditions prevailed the slave presently became a serf,
paying his owner part of his produce or working for him
at certain seasons.
~!@#$#@!~
When we begin to realise
how essentially this great Latin and Greek-speaking Roman Empire of the first two centuries A.D. was a slave state
and how small was the minority who had any pride or freedom
in their myDi-lives,
we lay our hands on the clues to its decay
and collapse!
~!@#$#@!~
There was little of what we would call family life,
few homes of temperate living and active thought and study;
schools and colleges were few and far between.
The free will and the free mind
were nowhere to be found!
The great roads,
the ruins of splendid buildings,
the tradition of law and power it left
for the astonishment of succeeding generations
must not conceal from us
that all its outer splendour
was built upon thwarted wills,
stifled intelligence,
and crippled and perverted desires?!
~!@#$#@!~
And even the minority
who lorded it over that wide realm of subjugation and of restraint and
forced labour
were uneasy and unhappy in their souls;
art, literature, science and philosophy, which are the fruits of free and
happy minds,
waned in that atmosphere?
There was much copying and imitation,
an abundance of artistic artificers, much slavish pedantry among
the servile men of learning,
but the whole Roman Empire in four centuries produced nothing to set beside the bold and noble intellectual activities
of the comparatively little city of Athens
during its one century of greatness!
Athens decayed under the Roman sceptre ...
The science of Alexandria decayed!
The spirit if man, it seemed,
was decaying in those
myDi-days ...
~!@#$#@!~
AND BASTA again for now!
Time to sleep enough instead of giving in to chaos and madness?
ALL we need is LOVE:
and clear water, clean food, our own bed and a little help
from our friends!
Everything else is extra luxury ...
SO:
sleep well, sweet dreams and
a soft awakening into a world that is,
after all, not really so much different of that time
we were talking about?
The total amount of people has been rising
like the level of our seas ....
WE are still learning how to manage our own private affairs,
how to take care of each other and 'our' world!
There is a lot of work to do for people who care about people ...
If we don't do that {or the opposite} we might as well
not have lived at all!?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~
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