still confidence, energy, industry. The Goths were to live by the
Gothic law, the Romans by the Roman. To amalgamate the two races
would have been as impossible as to amalgamate English and Hindoos.
The parallel is really tolerably exact. The Goth was very English;
and the over-civilized, learned, false, profligate Roman was the very
counterpart of the modern Brahmin. But there was to be equal justice
between man and man. If the Goths were the masters of much of the
Roman soil, still spoliation and oppression were forbidden; and the
remarkable edict or code of Theodoric, shews how deeply into his
great mind had sunk the idea of the divineness of Law. It is short,
and of Draconic severity, especially against spoliation, cheating,
false informers, abuse by the clergy of the rights of sanctuary, and
all offences against the honour of women. I advise you all to study
it, as an example of what an early Teutonic king thought men ought to
do, and could be made to do.

The Romans were left to their luxury and laziness; and their country
villas (long deserted) were filled again by the owners. The Goths
were expected to perform military service, and were drilled from
their youth in those military evolutions which had so often given the
disciplined Roman the victory over the undisciplined Goth, till every
pomoerium (boulevard), says Ennodius, might be seen full of boys and
lads, learning to be soldiers. Everything meanwhile was done to
soothe the wounded pride of the conquered. The senate of Rome was
still kept up in name (as by Odoacer), her nobles flattered by
sonorous titles, and the officers of the kingdom and the palace bore
the same names as they would have done under Roman emperors. The
whole was an attempt to develop Dietrich's own Goths by the only
civilization which he knew, that of Constantinople: but to engraft
on it an order, a justice, a freedom, a morality, which was the