... of human life; and it is clear that to both of them the system in which they lived, the ! system of monarchy, of leisurely and privileged gentlefolk_s, of rather despised industrial and trading people and of downtrodden and negligible laborers, and poor and common people, seemed the most stably established way of living that the world has ever seen Throughout the ... to realize what fires had once blazed in the heart of Christianity, and what fires, of political and religious passion might still blaze in the hearts of men. "This awful revolution," wrote Gibbon of the Western collapse, "...

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