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

by Charles Kingsley

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 MÜLLER

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 Müller
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