Gibbon's great history is essentially an attack upon Christianity as the operating cause of the decline and fall. ... In an interregnum incommoded with an abundance of sleek parsons and sly priests it; was bard 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. ...

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