... entering the quiet precincts of the tea-room, the company assembling to partake of the ceremony laidaside, together with their swords, the ferocity of the battle-field or the cares of government, there ... the future. Of all the great occupations of life, none was farther removed from the profession of arms than commerce. The merchant was placed lowest in the category of vocations, the knight, the tiller of ... in the hands of the powerful. The separation of power and riches kept the distribution of the latter more nearly equable. Professor Dill, the author of "Roman Society in the Last Century of...