The Fate of Empires : Being An Inquiry Into the Stability of Civilisation
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. and the great temple of Apollo on the Palatine." ^ " Augustus encouraged others to follow his example. . . . Marcus Philippus his kinsman raised a temple to Hercules, Lucius Cornuficius to Diana, and Munatius Plancus to Saturn. . , . Agrippa raised the glorious Pantheon ; and near at hand was the temple of Poseidon, founded to commemorate his many naval vic- tories."^ "Augustus eventually recognised that the identification of himself with Rome and the empire for purposes of public worship, th...e close union, that is to say, of Church and State, was a source of incalculable strength to the Principate.
He would have failed in statesmanship, therefore, had he not encouraged this idea and given it definite shape."® We cannot suppose that this last consideration was lost upon the astute and inscrutable Augustus, and we know that it sank deeply into the minds of his successors. The question therefore arises : " Are we here in the presence of religious systems that essentially subserved the State, or of systems that were essentially cosmocentric ?
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
. and the great temple of Apollo on the Palatine." ^ " Augustus encouraged others to follow his example. . . . Marcus Philippus his kinsman raised a temple to Hercules, Lucius Cornuficius to Diana, and Munatius Plancus to Saturn. . , . Agrippa raised the glorious Pantheon ; and near at hand was the temple of Poseidon, founded to commemorate his many naval vic- tories."^ "Augustus eventually recognised that the identification of himself with Rome and the empire for purposes of public worship, th...e close union, that is to say, of Church and State, was a source of incalculable strength to the Principate.
He would have failed in statesmanship, therefore, had he not encouraged this idea and given it definite shape."® We cannot suppose that this last consideration was lost upon the astute and inscrutable Augustus, and we know that it sank deeply into the minds of his successors. The question therefore arises : " Are we here in the presence of religious systems that essentially subserved the State, or of systems that were essentially cosmocentric ?
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