blood ran down every limb. Her only son, a delicate boy,
stood by trembling, knowing that his turn would come next; and she saw
it, and called to him in the midst of her shame and agony. 'He had been
baptized into the name of the Blessed Trinity; let him die in that name,
and not lose the wedding-garment. Let him fear the pain that never ends,
and cling to the life that endures for ever.' The boy took heart, and
when his turn came, died under the torture; and Dionysia took up the
little corpse, and buried it in her own house; and worshipped upon her
boy's grave to her dying day.

Yes. God had his own left, even among those fallen Africans of Carthage.

But neither there, nor in Spain, could the Vandals cure the evil. 'Now-a-
days,' says Salvian, 'there are no profligates among the Goths, save
Romans; none among the Vandals, save Romans. Blush, Roman people,
everywhere, blush for your morals. There is hardly a city free from dens
of sin, and none at all from impurity, save those which the barbarians
have begun to occupy. And do we wonder if we are surpassed in power, by
an enemy who surpasses us in decency? It is not the natural strength of
their bodies which makes them conquer us. We have been conquered only by
the vices of our own morals.'

Yes. Salvian was right. Those last words were no mere outburst of
national vanity, content to confess every sin, save that of being
cowards. He was right. It was not the mere muscle of the Teuton which
enabled him to crush the decrepit and debauched slave-nations, Gaul and
Briton, Iberian and African, as the ox crushes the frogs of the marsh.
The 'sera juvenum Venus, ideoque inexhausta pubertas,' had given him more
than his lofty stature, and his mighty limbs. Had he had nought but
them, he might have remained to the end a blind Samson, grinding among
the slaves in Caesar's mill, butchered to make a Roman holiday. But it
had given him more, that purity of his; it had given him, as it may give
you, gentlemen, a calm and steady brain, and a free and loyal heart; the
energy which springs from health; the self-respect which comes from self-
restraint; and the spirit which shrinks from neither God nor man, and
feels it light to die for wife and child, for people, and for Queen.

PREFACE TO LECTURE III.--ON DR. LATHAM'S 'GERMANIA.'

If I have followed in these lectures the better known and more widely
received etymology of the name Goth, I have done so out of n