ABSTRACT
Modern Critique IN a very sound article on "Patricians and Plebeians a t Rome" 1 Professor H. J. Rose makes a statement which sums up Modern Critique so well as to form a very convenient text on which to base a critique of that critique. He says: "In the matter of the origin of the plebs we have to handle Livy or Dionysius as we do Niebuhr or Binder; as theorists, that is, who must bring forward facts to prove their theories."
