{The Nature of the Romans}[1st May 1991]

[Redbook9:236-237][19910501:0800mm]{The Nature of the Romans}[1^st May 1991]

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*If Islam’s generally right-wing and anti-artistic character is related to its starting point at c[ica]M~U~, why isn’t Rome the civilisation of wonderful artistic originality that we perceive in classical Greece? – The G~ factor in Rome is detectable only in its republicanism, and its sense of justice (and even that** is at least as much m~ as G~).

I don’t really have an answer to this: the Romans were interested in art, but by common account not original.

Perhaps one answer is that [whereas] a military strategy can spring, as it were, fully-armed from the head of Man, a cultural flowering requires centuries of preparation. The Romans simply weren’t around, racially or culturally, in *** sufficiently identifiable state at least for their culture to be seen as the ripening stage of a much longer cultural cycle.

Well, it sounds plausible.****

*{cf [[Redbook9:182-183][19910423:0920b]{The Nature of Islam}[23rd April 1991],] 183}

**[The sense of justice, presumably]

***[sic]

****{But still not very convincing in C[ircles] A[nalysis] and S[ynthesis] terms.}

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