1. The Fall Of The Roman Empire
... enjoyed a considerable and increasing prosperity. Central Europe recovered steadily from the devastation of the Thirty Years' War. As provisional it was as no other age has been provisional, an age of assimilation and recuperation, a political pause, a gathering up of the ideas of men and the resources of science for a wider human effort. ... men are the high lights of his long and complicated life-story. And this being the mental disposition of Gibbon and Voltaire, and of the age in which they lived, it is natural that they should find the existence of religion in the world, and in par...
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