The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken.

When did one man ever civilize a people?

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken.

The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.