The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-09
THE RUTLAND DAILY GLOBE TUESDAY MORNING,
Rome. the baths of Caracalla the Cos.

Rome, the baths of Caracalla, the Cos
scum, and the acqueducts. Beside tese
the temples sink into insignifcance. ley
(the temples had much of grace nd
beauty, much of the highest adorninghe
times could do, but there is none of he
gigantic grandeur of the public work of
Rome. The acqueducts, the colossem,
the baths were the fit belongings ofthe
omphdIes of the world. ReD fecit Is rit-
ten over all their portals, but the Rersas
merely the architect, the engineer tho
built them, by order of the Roman citizen.
To-day in modern Europe, in Berlin, hrs
and elsewhere, Reg tecit is literally tie.
Their monuments built by the king to
glorify the king, for kingly use, andac-
cording to the canons of royal taste, are
monuments, which the citizen may usdby
permission and sufferance of the king out
in Rome, Rome built, Rome used. If
Caesar did build, he built not as Juile,
Hadrian, or Titus, but as Caesar, the CO.
crete authority of Rome. Nothing gies
as these works give one such an idea of he
of the Titanic manhood of that Roman It.
izenshp, which in the empire as welhs
the republic, openly or unseen compelbd
the Cesar, who ruled Rome. st. Pal
felt this. The temples and all the pan
phenalia OF worship, give YOU an idea that
the religions was not the dominant feelig,
that the strongest feeling was that OF ms
terhood, not worship, that Rome was afer
all greater than the gods of Rome.
Then was Rome in the prime of mn-
hood. Now 1t is different here with tie
church, and different with Rome.
1t is hard to describe the acqueducts )r
the baths. Put before your minds eye the
highest railroad bridge you ever saw,
make it 40, so, go, 70 feet high, build II
of solid masonry let the pillars, the arch
es and the road bed, the bridge, be all 81
stone or brick, and not one ounce of wood
in the whole concern. Now extend thai
bridge tor fifty or sixty miles, or at least
far enough to have 1t sink out of sight
away down the horizon of the CampagIa,
| and you will have one acqueduct. There
were -four or five. Three still stand
Throw down an occasional fifty yards Of
this long bridge, have some trees or bushes
growing atop, and you have present Ro
man acqueduct, before you. These wate-
works are not so grand as are the baths o
the colosseum. Now you know what
am talking about.
Another feeling comes oyer you as 20
wander from the colosseum to the cross
and that is, that the Rome, the grand oil
| city, and empire we used to read about /
college, is dead, gone, desolatc. The win
| that means through her streets, sounds 6
solemn as that sweeping through the ruiz
| of Dternuous, and you turn to presen
Rome with feeling akin to that, which
| should suppose one would have when lool
ing at the Mosem rookeries clusterin
around Jerusalem. From all this, someho,
ccclesiastic. Rome is separate and apar
| That seems new civilization. 1t betoker
new ideas, new world, new life, a
little akin to the old, as would be pa
metto grated on an oak To see an
| feel the greatness of new Rome you mu:
go to the churches, and galleries. but c
these do not propose to write.
NJ. GOLDSMITH.