Excerpt from The History of the Life of M. Tullius Cicero, Vol. 1 of 3 I DO not impute this to any fuperiority of arts or genius, peculiar to the Ancients; for human nature has ever been the fame in all ages and nations, and owes the difference of it's improvements, to a difference onely of culture, and of the rewards propofed to Its induftry where thefe are the moft amply provided, there we {hall always find the molt numerous and fhining examples of human perfeetion. In old Rome, the public honors were laid open to the virtue of every Citi zen which, by railing them in their turns to the command of that mighty Empire, produced a race of Nobles, fuperior even to Kings. This was a profpeet, that filled the foul of the ambitious, and roofed every far culty of mind and body, to exert it's ut molt force: whereas in modern fiates, men's views being ufually confined to narrow bounds, beyond which they cannot pafs, and a partial culture of their talents being fuflicient to procure every thing, that their ambition can afpire to, a great genius has feldom either room or invitation to firetch it (elf to it's full fize. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.