Johnson in His Time

was the solid foundation of the greatestrnand most benign empire the world hasrnever known. Modern Christians who railrnagainst the inhumanity of infanticide orrnsexual perversity in the ancient worldrnouglit to take a good look around themrnbefore presuming to quarrel with Gibbon'srnjudgment that the age of the Antoninesrnwas "the period in . . .