1. The Fall Of The Roman Empire
Voltaire -was an author of enormous industry; seventy volumes of him adorn the present -writer's shelves, and another edition of Voltaire's works runs to ninety- four; he dealt largely with history and public affairs, and he corresponded with Catherine the Great of Russia, Frederick the Great of Prussia, Louis XV, and most of the prominent people of the time. ... Gibbon's great history is essentially an attack upon Christianity as the operating cause of the decline and fall. ... In our history here we have tried to set that story in a better light. ... And indeed in that period ...
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