1. The Fall Of The Roman Empire
Both Voltaire and Gibbon had the sense of history strong in them; both have set out very plainly and fully their visions of human life; and it is clear that to both of them the system in which they lived, the ! ... Central Europe recovered steadily from the devastation of the Thirty Years' War. ... 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. ... Beyond the Rhine and Danube, the northern countries of Europe and Asia were filled with innu...
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- Grade Level: Graduate