PREFACE THE fifth is a melancholy century a century of ruin and of tottering to a fall. The Roman Empire collapses in the West beneath the weight of assailants more unconscious of their strength than malignant in intention, the victim of its own internal weakness rather than of the blows which it received. In the East it still holds its ground, because it has not been seriously attacked. Though not as yet hemmed in by SIavs on the one side and Arabs on the other, it struggles without against the pressure of the barbarian and the menacing proximity of Persia, and within its own borders against centrifugal elements which begin to notify to it in Coptic, in Syriac, and in Armenian their defection from a hegemony which was Greek. The Church might have lent its aid in overcoming the forces of disintegration, but the Church too is in convulsion. It wins, it is true, a decisive triumph over Paganism but this victory is itself the source of tremendous difficulties for the Church in adjustment...

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