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Excerpt from History of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Commodus, A. D. 192 It is a fact which can not but be surprising to every one who has at all looked into the subject, that, notwithstanding the extraordinary efforts which have within the last thirty or forty years been made by great men of all countries in investigating the History of Rome - her Constitution, Laws, Religion, Literature, and Social condition - and notwithstanding the important results which have not only changed the aspect of the early History of Rome, but have, at the same time, given a different tone and color to the later history of that extraordinary nation - the books on Roman History which are used in our schools still continue, to a great extent, to be what they were half a century ago. Old errors and misconceptions, which have long since been exposed and exploded by scholars, are daily repeated and impressed upon the mind and memory of the rising generation, and the student is left to discover these errors at a maturer age, when it is not always an easy matter to get rid of them. But why, in the name of truth, should boys continue to learn that which has been proved again and again to be false and incorrect, and which afterward they have to unlearn? The teacher has so much to do in storing the minds of his pupils with knowledge, and in training their mental powers to independent activity, that it is worse than waster of time to teach that which is false or unsound, and which, in the progress of their studies, must prove an obstacle rather than an assistance. 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