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A Quotation From Gibbon


RonPrice

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THE WINDS SURE DO BLOW COLD AWAY OUT THERE*

 

...we must applaud the good sense of the Christian princes, who viewed with a smile of contempt the last struggles of superstition and despair....so rapid, yet so gentle, was the fall of Paganism that only twenty-eight years after the death of Theodosius the faint and minute vestiges were no longer visible to the eye of the legislator. -Edward Gibbon, Gibbon

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