Excerpt from History of Civilization in the Fifth Century, Vol. 2 of 2The rise of a Christian literature it required a language and adopted the Latin, which seemed little fitted for the new ideas, its terseness and harshness originally, contrast between its genius and that of Greek, adapted to a hard and practical race, subsequent introduction of Greek forms, encouraged by Cicero, stress laid upon euphony in public speaking, poetry becomes Graecized in the hands of Virgil, Horace, and Catullus. The golden age of Latin, its speedy corruption and the causes of it, the Eastern genius of contemplation, the Greek tendency to speculation and the Latin love for action dominated antiquity, these three elements passed on to modern times by means of the Vulgate, history of the work undertaken by St. Jerome, and examination of its.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.