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nothing, adopted everything, quietly correcting, gently changing and reforming everything, graving the Cross of its Founder on all the institutions of pagan Rome; breathing its inspiration by degrees into all its laws and customs."[1]

  1. De Broglie, Revue des deux mondes, 1st Nov. 1852, reproduced in his L'Église et l'Empire Romain, vol. i., Avertissement, ii-iii.