Chapter XXV: Reigns Of Jovian And Valentinian, Division Of The Empire.—Part IV. Chapter XXV: Reigns Of Jovian And Valentinian, Division Of The Empire.—Part V. Chapter XXV: Reigns Of Jovian And Valentinian, Division Of The Empire.—Part VI. Chapter XXV: Reigns Of Jovian And Valentinian, Division Of The Empire.—Part VII. Chapter XXVI: Progress of The Huns.—Part I. Manners Of The Pastoral Nations.—Progress Of The Huns, From China To Europe.—Flight Of The Goths.—They Pass The Danube.—Gothic War.—Defeat And Death Of Valens.—Gratian Invests Theodosius With The Eastern Empire.—His Character And Success.—Peace And Settlement Of The Goths. Chapter XXVI: Progress of The Huns.—Part II. Chapter XXVI: Progress of The Huns.—Part III. Chapter XXVI: Progress of The Huns.—Part IV. Chapter XXVI: Progress of The Huns.—Part V. VOLUME TWO Chapter XVI: Conduct Towards The Christians, From Nero To Constantine.—Part I. The Conduct Of The Roman Government Towards The Christians, From The Reign Of Nero To That Of Constantine. 1111 1111 (return) [ The sixteenth chapter I cannot help considering as a very ingenious and specious, but very disgraceful extenuation of the cruelties perpetrated by the Roman magistrates against the Christians. It is written in the most contemptibly factious spirit of prejudice against the sufferers; it is unworthy of a philosopher and of humanity. Let the narrative of Cyprian’s death be examined. He had to relate the murder of an innocent man of advanced age, and in a station deemed venerable by a considerable body of the provincials of Africa, put to death because he refused to sacrifice to Jupiter. Instead of pointing the indignation of posterity against such an atrocious act of tyranny, he dwells, with visible art, on the small circumstances of decorum and politeness which attended this murder, and which he relates with as much parade as if they were the most important particulars of the event. Dr. Robertson has been the subject of much blame for his real or supposed lenity towards the Spanish murderers and tyrants in America. That the sixteenth chapter of Mr. G. did not excite the same or greater disapprobation, is a proof of the unphilosophical and indeed fanatical animosity against Christianity, which was so prevalent during the latter part of the eighteenth century.—_Mackintosh:_ see Life, i. p. 244, 245.]