Eudocia

No historical value attaches to this romance, for one has but taken half a page from Gibbon and elaborated the good story against its gorgeous background aC ourt as magnificent to the eye as contemptible to the heart of man. By its own momentum the huge organisation of theE astern Empire rolled on for certain centuries after the reign of Eudocia and Komanus, though the fabric of the mass had long begun to shed its substance and the axe was at the root. History is but a reverberation; and the forces that brought down theB yzantines similarly combined against all earlier civilisations and will resolve all later. We have seen them operating in this our time, raising new kingdoms and destroying old, through the dynamic genius of an irrational humanity that changes not. Only reason can secure and endure stability; but reason has yet to find her place in the sun of mans favour; no kings or peoples bring gold and frankincense to that cradle. The comedy is not, therefore, archaic; but read in the light of to-day, alive at least in spirit. E. P.
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