By Sarah J. Butler
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Is not considered to be a subject for anthropological investigations, there is one view of historical events which brings them within our scope . . 159 King used Rome as an example of the way acknowledging and comprehending the importance of race aided understanding of the rise and fall of empires. 161 J. R. 162 Sheppard too acknowledged, albeit grudgingly, the value of science to history. ‘The question of race’, he believed, was ‘one of the largest elements in that important problem of modern politics’, by which he meant ‘the balance of power’.
He could find no comparable occurrence in modern times of such an infringement of an individual’s freedom from illegal imprisonment although there were ‘instances’, he claimed, ‘to be found . . 122 Such negative representations of Imperial Rome were also evident in the historical record. 123 Possessing a ‘power entirely despotic’,124 Arnold believed, Augustus had presided over a society with: no public hospitals, no institutions for the relief of the infirm and poor; no societies for the removal of abuses, or the improvement of the condition of mankind from motives of charity.
44 A policy of systematic emigration, it was suggested, had the potential to ward off unrest and, therefore, maintain economic prosperity and social cohesion. indd 23 8/21/2001 11:26:00 AM 24 Britain and Its Empire in the Shadow of Rome As Buller’s ‘undisciplined disaffection’ attained a semblance of discipline with the working classes organized into groups such as the Chartists, the seeming advantages of possessing colonies grew. The Times had reported on the Chartist Demonstration in Manchester in September 1838 for ‘universal suffrage, annual Parliaments, vote by Ballot, no property qualification .