The pure and genuine influence of Christianity may be traced in its beneficial, though imperfect, effects on the barbarian proselytes of the North. If the decline of the Roman empire was hastened by the conversion of Constantine, his victorious religion broke the violence of the fall, and mollified the ferocious temper of the conquerors.
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Original Citation
Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 4, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1788, ch. 38.
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Current Citation
Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 4. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 38.
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