l organization, said that he had made the most compact
government, one with the quickest circulation and the most nervous
energy, that ever existed. And, he remarked, nothing but this would
have answered in overcoming the immense difficulties around us, and
for effecting the wonderful things we accomplished. The organization of
prefectures, their action, their results, were admirable and prodigious.
The same impulsion affected at the same time more than forty millions of
men, and, aided by centers of local activity, the action was as rapid at
every extremity as at the heart."]

[Footnote 2329: "The Ancient Regime," book III., chs. 2 and 3. (Laff. I,
pp. 139 to 151 and pp. 153 to 172.)]

[Footnote 2330: Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," chs. I,
2, 3, and 13.--Duruy, "Histoire des Romains" (illustrated edition),
tenth period, chs. 82, 83, 84, and 85; twelfth period, chs. 95 and
99; fourteenth period, ch. 104.--(The reader will find in these two
excellent works the texts and monuments indicated to which it is
necessary to resort for a direct and satisfactory impression.)]

[Footnote 2331: See in Plutarch (Principles of Political Government) the
situation of a Greek city under the Antonines.]

[Footnote 2332: Gibbon, ch. 10.--Duruy, ch. 95. (Decrease of the
population of Alexandria under Gallien, according to the registers of
the alimentary institution, letter of the bishop Dionysius.)]

[Footnote 2333: "Digest," I., 4, I.: "Quod principi placuit legis habet
vigorem, utpote, cum lege regia, quae de imperio ejus lata est, populus
ei et in eum omne suum imperium et potestatem conferat. Quodcumque
igitur imperator per epistolam et subscriptionem statuit, vel cognoscens
decrevit, vel de plano interlocutus est, vel edicto praecepit, legis
habet vigorem." (Extracts from Ulpian.)--Gaius, Institutes, I., 5: "Quod
imperator constituit, non dubium est quin id vicem legis obtineat, quum
ipse imperator per legem imperium obtineat."]

[Footnote 2334: "Digest," I, 2. (Extracts from Ulpian): "Jus est a
justitia appellatum; nam, ut eleganter Celsus definit, jus est ars boni
et aequi. Cujus merito quis nos sacerdotes appellat: justitiam
namque colimus, et boni et aequi notitiam profitemur, aequum ab iniquo
separantes, licitum ab illicito discernentes,... veram, nisi fallor,
philosophiam, non simulatam affectantes.... Juris praecepta sunt haec:
honeste vivere, alterum non laedere, suum cuique tribuere."--cf. Duruy,
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