Writing  to  Pope  Eugenius  during  the  troubles
of  the  day,  he  says,  "What  shall  I  say  of  the
people  ?  why,  that  it  is  the  Roman  people.  I
could  not  more  concisely  or  fully  express  what  I
think  of  your  subjects.  What  has  been  so  noto-
rious for  ages  as  *the  wantonness  and  haughtiness
of  the  Romans  ?  a  race  unaccustomed  to  peace,
accustomed  to  tumult ;  a  race  cruel  and  unmanage-
able up  to  this  day,  which  knows  not  to  submit,
unless  when  it  is  unable  to  make  fight.  ...  I  know
the  hardened  heart  of  this  people,  but  God  is
powerful  even  of  these  stones  to  raise  up  children
to  Abraham.  .  .  .  Whom  will  you  find  for  me  out  of
the  whole  of  that  populous  city,  who  received  you
as  Pope  without  bribe  or  hope  of  bribe?  And
then  especially  are  they  wishing  to  be  masters,
when  they  have  professed  to  be  servants.  They
promise  to  be  trustworthy,  that  they  may  have
the  opportunity  of  injuring  those  who  trust  them.
.  .  .  They  are  wise  for  evil,  but  they  are  ignorant

*  I  take  those  facts  as  I  find  thera  in  Gibbon's  Histor3%  the
work  wliich  I  have  immediately  at  hand ;  but  it  would  not  be
difficult  to  collect  a  multitude  of  such  instances  from  the
original  historians  of  those  times.
