Spencer Heath Archive

Item 888

Penciling on a card

April 23, 1957

When Rome sank down, sodden under her own slavery, she took revenge on the free people who settled on her ruins. The non-violent religion they received from the East, she infected with the virus of her expiring worldly power. This religion, so poisoned, though still holding to the primacy of the human unit, repelled all further Eastern culture for a thousand years in a darkness only broken when trading at last opened the windows of Europe to Arab and Alexandrine light.