History of
European Morals
From Augustus to Charlemagne
By
William Edward Hartpole Lecky, M.A.
Ninth Edition
In Two Volumes
Vol. 1.
London
Longmans, Green, And Co.
1890
I have availed myself of the interval since the last edition, to subject this book to a minute and careful revision, removing such inaccuracies as I have been able myself to discover, as well as those which have been brought under my notice by reviewers or correspondents. I must especially acknowledge the great assistance I have derived in this task from my German translator, Dr. H. Jolowicz—now, unhappily, no more—one of the most conscientious and accurate scholars with whom I have ever been in communication. In the controversial part of the first chapter, which has given rise to a good deal of angry discussion, four or five lines which stood in the former editions