Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last evening to hear Mr. Hamilton's prize dissertation on "Boniface, the Apostle to the Germans." Mr. Hamilton began with a brief review of the general condition of Europe in the eighth century. Society was imbued with the rankest spirit of barbarism. There was no security from the lawless bands of robbers. Pillage drove all who had any feelings of duty to the monasteries and cloisters. The glory of Rome as a nation was gone and the bishop of Rome saw an opportunity to raise a powerful church out of the ruins of the Caesars. The ravages of the Huns...
...Lawless...