Capitolo 85
contracts between the citizen and the state. He received earth the state,,
protection. But with Tiberius Gracchus a change enters. His/her farmers
it would be established in peaceful sections of Italy; they was to receive
you only disembark because of their poverty. This was socialism or is
philanthropy. As the agrarian account of Tiberius, the law of corn of Gaius
Gracchus that provided for the sale of wheat under the price of market was
a fatherly measure inhaled partly from understanding for the pauper. The
political element is also clear in both the cases. The people that were this way
favored by assignments of earth and food the leaders they naturally sustained
who assisted them. Perhaps the wide building of roads that Gaius
Gracchus continued you/he/she should be mentioned in this connection. The apparent one
purpose of these great public road, perhaps their primary purpose was
you develop Italy and to facilitate communication among different parts of
the peninsula, but a big number of men they were in demand for them
construction, and Gaius Gracchus has been able to take well the matter on, partly
for the purpose to furnish job to the unused one. Out of this small
beginnings developed the policy socialist more late times. From the middle one
of the first century A.C., it is said that there were three hundred and
winds thousand people receiving portions of corn from the state, and, if
the people could seek the necessities of the life to the government, because
would not they hope for having to provide him/it their less pressing necessities? Or, to
put him/it in another way, if a statesman won their support giving them
corn, because it was not able another increase his/her popularity offering them with
fun and with the comforts of the life? Present of oil and dressing
naturally follows, the to give of games and theatrical shows to the
government expenditure and the building of porticos and public baths. As
the government and rich citizens supposed a greater measure of
the responsibility for the welfare of the citizens, the people became more and