The Age of the Fathers, Being Chapters in the History of the Church During the Fourth and Fifth Centuries, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Age of the Fathers, Being Chapters in the History of the Church During the Fourth and Fifth Centuries, Vol. 2 of 2The 17th of January, 395, the day on which Theodosius the Great expired at Milan, must have been long remembered by thoughtful and observant minds throughout the Roman empire, as the close of a period which on the whole had been fruitful in public peace, prosperity, and glory. It is indeed easy to imagine the feelings with which such minds must have received the evil tidings of the great Emperor's departure. It was not only the passing away of a strong man and a noble and princely spirit - noble and princely, in Spite Of too frequent bursts of passion, or increasing indolence, or the taste for the luxury and extravagance Of a court - from the highest place of earthly dignity it was virtually the passing away, with him, of the empire's unity, solidity, and true greatness, it was the awakening of the gravest anxieties wherever there was capacity to appreciate a public crisis, to estimate approaching perils, and to discern the signs of a realm's weakness or decay. He was gone, who had upheld the State for sixteen years from the time when Gratian selected him, the exiled son of a disgraced and condemned father, to govern the East and terminate a dangerous war, and he had left the sovereignty divided between his two sons, aged eighteen and eleven - Arcadius to reign at Constantinople, and Honorius to preside over the West.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.