THE people lived isolated and ignorant, and were therefore prone to war: his object was that the amenities of life should give them a taste for peace and quietness. By private influence and by grants of public money he urged on the erection of good houses, of courts of justice, and of temples, praising those who were apt pupils and reprimanding the backward. Emulation was his stimulus in lieu of coercion. He moreover offered the sons of the chiefs a liberal education, and lauded the native genius of the Britons at the expense of the industry of the Gauls, in order that they who so lately loathed the sound of Latin might be fired with ambition to make eloquent speeches in it.

Roman costume thus came into fashion, and the toga began to be commonly seen, and bit by bit the way was opened to those agreeable means of demoralisation, the lounge, the bath, and the banquet; and this change the unsuspecting Britons called by the name of refinement, when it was but one step deeper into slavery.