Abstract
Such phrases as “the end of an age” can be dangerous. They play, for instance, into the hands of the compilers of college catalogues who can snip history more neatly into arbitrary segments than any modern precision machine can reduce an original solid to diaphanous slices. There can no more be the end of an age than there can be an abrupt stoppage and resumption of the processes of life in the individual after childhood, youth, middle age, and the date of retirement. Historical fact is a continuum; as a rule it is only when we turn to look back that we begin to see lines floating before our eyes and presently identify these our own ophthalmic disturbances with actualities of historical divisions. Rome may have " fallen"in 476 AD but not many people heard the crash; the business of getting something to eat, a place to sleep, and the sustenance for a family never ceased for a single hour for most people, whatever it was that happened to the child with the ironically conceived name of Romulus Augustulus. What did happen was that an administrative system ceased to be at Rome.
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