Gibbon's great history is essentially an attack upon Christianity as the operating cause of the decline and fall. ... And indeed in that period of the interregnum there was very little life or light in either the orthodox Christianity of Rome or in the orthodox tame churches of Russia and of the Protestant princes. ... Perhaps the same reflections will illustrate the fall of that mighty empire and explain the probable causes of our actual security. ... The Huns, who fled before a victorious enemy, directed their march towards the west; and the torrent was swelled by the gradual accessio...

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