I saw the Baths of Caracalla, witnessing to a cult of cleanliness, adduced also to prove the luxury of Ancient Romans and the simplicity of Anglo-Saxons.

All it really proves either way is a love of washing on a large scale; which might merely indicate that Caracalla, like other Emperors, was a lunatic.

But indeed what such things do indicate, if only indirectly, is something which is here much more important.
They indicate not only a sincerity in the public spirit, but a certain smoothness in the public services.

In a word, while there were many revolutions, there were no strikes.
The citizens were often rebels; but there were men who were not rebels, because they were not citizens.

The ancient world forced a number of people to do the work of the world first, before it allowed more privileged people to fight about the government of the world.
The truth is trite enough, of course; it is in the single word Slavery, which is not the name of a crime like Simony, but rather of a scheme like Socialism.