C. As military causes:
The cessation of military service by Italians and the use of Germanic soldiers.
D. As moral and religious causes:
The vice fostered by a corrupt court.
The general decline of morals among a weakened and disheartened people.
Over against all these are to be set the numbers, the virility, the comparative freedom from civilized vices, of the sturdy barbarians; and most of all their capacity for absorbing the worthiest things among the people whom they conquered.
American History in the Secondary School
ARTHUR M. WOLFSON, PH.D., Editor.
RECENT AMERICAN HISTORY.