



Transcribed from the 1889 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org





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 MULLER

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 Muller
   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




PREFACE


Never shall I forget the moment when for the last time I gazed upon the
manly features of Charles Kingsley, features which Death had rendered
calm, grand, sublime.  The constant struggle that in life seemed to allow
no rest to his expression, the spirit, like a caged lion, shaking the
bars of his prison, the mind striving for utterance, the soul wearying
for loving response,--all that was over.  There remained only the
satisfied expression of triumph and peace, as of a soldier who had fought