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Title: The Roman and the Teuton
A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge

Author: Charles Kingsley

Editor: F. Max Muller

Release Date: October 4, 2007 [eBook #3821]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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Transcribed from the 1889 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

THE ROMAN AND THE TEUTON

A SERIES OF LECTURES

DELIVERED BEFORE

_THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE_

BY
CHARLES KINGSLEY, M.A.

_NEW EDITION_, _WITH PREFACE_, _BY_
PROFESSOR F. MAX MULLER

London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1889

[_All rights reserved_]

OXFORD:
HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY.

DEDICATED
TO
The Gentlemen of the University
WHO DID ME THE HONOUR
TO ATTEND THESE LECTURES.

Contents

Preface by Professor F. Max Muller
The Forest Children
The Dying Empire
Preface to Lecture III
The Human Deluge
The Gothic Civilizer
Dietrich's End
The Nemesis of the Goths
Paulus Diaconus
The Clergy and the Heathen
The Monk a Civilizer
The Lombard Laws
The Popes and the Lombards
The Strategy of Prividence
Appendix--Inaugural Lecture: The Limits of Exact Science as Applied to
History

PREFACE

Never shall I forget the moment when for the last time I gazed upon the
manly features of Charles Kingsley, features which Death had rendered
calm, grand, sublime. The constant struggle that in life seemed to allow
no rest to his expression, the spirit, like a caged lion, shaking the
bars of his prison, the mind striving for utterance, the soul wearying
for loving response,--all that was over. There remained only the
satisfied expression of triumph and peace, as of a soldier who had fought
a good fight, and who, while sinking into the stillness of the slumber of
death, listens to the distant sounds of music and to the shouts of
victory. One saw the ideal man, as Nature had meant him to be, and one
felt that there is no greater sculptor than Death.