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Updated: April 30, 2025

But is the Frank's perfidy as blameable as ours? Is the Alman's drunkenness, or the Alan's rapacity, as damnable as a Christian's? If a Hun or a Gepid deceives you, what wonder? He is utterly ignorant that there is any sin in falsehood. But what of the Christian who does the same? The Barbarians, he says, 'are better men than the Christians. The Goths, he says, 'are perfidious, but chaste.

Charles Kingsley - The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge