A ROMAN FORUM.

It is one of the glaring illustrations of the inefficiency of our democracy that there are still communities where school boards build school houses with public money, open them five or six hours, five days in the week, and refuse to allow them to be opened any other hour of the day or night, for a civic forum, parents' meeting, public lecture or other activity of adult education; and yet we call ourselves a practical people!

But cast your eyes to another part of these our artificial forums, and observe the number of small divisions which fill up the space.

Achieving the promise of network democracy The true promise of a network-enhanced democracy lies not in some form of web-driven political marketing survey, but in restoring and encouraging broader participation in some of the internet's more interactive forums.

Elige iter vitae, ut mavis: prudenua, lausque, Permeat omne forum; vita quieta domi est; Rus ornat natura; levat maris aspera lucrum, Verte solum, donat plena crumena decus; Pauperies latitat; cum conjuge, gaudia multa Tecta ineunt; coelebs impediere minus; Mulcet amor prolis, sopor est sine prole profundus; Praecellit juvenis vi, pietate senex.

Destruction hovers o'er the trembling crew, That fills this little forum.

Page 17, l. 2. nec ferrea, etc.: nor has he seen the hardships of the law, the mad forum, or the archives of the people.

While young gentlemen are talking about governing heaven and earth by verse, Wellingtons and Peels, Arkwrights and Stephensons, Frys, and Chisholms, are doing it by plain practical prose; and even of those who have moved and led the hearts of men by verse, every one, as far as we know, has produced his magical effects by poetry of the very opposite forum to that which is now in fashion.

The emergence of the internet as a self-organising community, its subsequent co-option by business interests, the resulting collapse of the dot.com pyramid and the more recent self-conscious revival of interactive media's most participatory forums, serve as a case study in the politics of renaissance.

What a vivid glimpse do we here obtain, from the graphic picture of an eye-witness, of the daily life in an ancient provincial forum; how completely do we seem to catch sight for a moment of that habitual expression of contempt which curled the thin lips of a Roman aristocrat in the presence of subject nations, and especially of Jews!

There was no open-air theatre in the vicinity, no forum alive with gossip and harangues, no public games, not even a loquacious barber's shop.

Also they here attend to affairs of their Unionline up members, hold business and educational meetings and a weekly "open forum."

That seemed to be his appropriate forum, and the only position in which he could indulge in his peculiarly popular style of oratory.