Excerpt from Dulce Domum: Essays on Rome LifeA book on Home ought not to be accounted homely, and on that account disparaged, for Home is a portion of the State, and the State is made up of Homes, and he who can in¿uence families for good, is doing one of the greatest political services.At the present time Communism is. Reviving all over Europe, and, if it should prevail, Ho'me would be one of the first things that would suffer. Few Communists have been so wise and good as Plato, yet his theory was destructive of two things very dear to us - the Home and the Family.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.