This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...greatest benefit which he can confer upon the State; and the love of the one is overbalanced in his mind by the love of the many. " BRUTUS. Yet see you but our hands, And this, the bleeding business they have done; Our hearts you see not, they are pitiful, And pity to the general wrong of Rome, "BRUTUS. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer, not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more." " Amour. This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them." The respectable Brutus lacks ability and foresight, as in generalship so in statesmanship. He attacks at Philippi against the better judgment of Cassius. He allows Antony to live, and to harangue the populace, also against Cassius' more prudent advice. His intelli gence is not sufiicient to enable him to perceive that his blow at Caesar, in spite of his hopes, will not be for the general weal. The tide of opinion has so set in for monarchy, that Brutus himself, having slain Caesar upon rigid republican principles, is hailed as Caesar by the multitude. His action, atrocious in itself, has not the justification that it could save the State. It could only bring on political convulsion and civil war, only--"Teach Bloody instructions, which being taught, return To plague the inventor." Macbeth. The less virtuous, but abler and more far-seeing Antony, utters a true prophecy of the proscriptions, battles, and suicides which followed Brutus' crime, and fill the last two acts of the play. " ANTONY. Over thy wounds now do. I pr0phesy, --A curse shall...