Man-to-Man Magazine, Vol. 7
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Excerpt from Man-to-Man Magazine, Vol. 7: January, 1911 I do not know that there is anything in the chronicles of the nations more fraught with human interest than the history of those old roads which have been the arteries of communication between the populous centres and their outlying districts. From earliest times the history of the great highways has been scarcely more or less than the history of the great nations of the world. Whether we take the roads of the old Egyptians, or those of the Chinese, or the monumental highways of the great Roman empire, we find in the story of their construction, in the history of the great movements along them, in the everyday life of the people who have travelled up and down them, a panoramic picture of those events which have made the history of the days gone by. Take the Appian Way - named by an ancient writer with justifiable pride, "Regina Viarum" - built, in part at least, by old Claudius Cæcus, censor of Rome in the year 313 B. C. - the oldest and most famous of all Roman roads. What scenes have been enacted on that celebrated pavement of hexagonal stone blocks! And could they but speak, these same stone blocks might tell us strange stories of things long since dead and forgotten. In peace and war that grand old road served the empire well. How often has it echoed to the armed tramp of the Roman legionaries, and how often over it were carried patrician nobles in their chariots, on one errand or another, and how often over it have toiled the plebes and slaves, and how often over some part of it have marched erect and proud barbarian prisoners for the triumphs of victorious generals. The whole mighty life of that haughty and opulent empire ebbed and flowed over that pavement, built with such nicety by Claudius Cæcus and those who came after him. Little wonder is it then that the story of a great road possesses a fascination and a charm scarcely less potent than the story of such historic landmarks as the pyramids, or the half-buried ruins of the ancient cities of the New World. Evolution of a Highway But it is not of ancient roads that I would write at the present time. 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.
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