Note 865 — PARTE SECONDA (continued 3)

Lecky, op. cit., p. 15: A boundless intolerance of all divergence of opinion was united with an equally boundless toleration of all falsehood and deliberate fraud that could favour received opinions. — p. 149: ..... The pictures of Roman societies by Ammianus Marcellinus, of the society of Marseilles by Salvian, of the society of Asia minor and of Constantinople by Chrysostom, as will as the whole tenor of the history, and innumerable incidental notices of the writers of the time exhibit a condition of depravity which has seldom been surpassed.