ideas of religious toleration: how deep must have been the
determination to have no such doings in his kingdom; how deep, too,
the dread of any similar outbreak at Rome.

Recollect, also, that now in his old age he had just witnessed the
same iniquities again rending the Eastern Empire; the old Emperor
Anastasius hunted to death by armies of mad monks about the
Monophysite Heresy; the cities, even the holiest places of the East,
stained with Christian blood; everywhere mob-law, murder, treachery,
assassination even in the house of God; and now the new Emperor
Justin was throwing himself into the party of the Orthodox with all
the blind rage of an ignorant peasant; persecuting, expelling,
shutting up the Arian Churches of the Goths, refusing to hear
Dietrich's noble appeals; and evidently organizing a great movement
against those peaceable Arians, against whom, during the life-time of
Dietrich, their bitterest enemies do not allege a single case of
persecution.

Remember, too, that Dietrich had had experience of similar outbreaks
of fanaticism at Rome; that the ordination of two rival Popes had
once made the streets run with blood; that he had seen priests
murdered, monasteries fired, nuns insulted, and had had to interfere
with the strong arm of the law, and himself decide in favour of the
Pope who had the most votes, and was first chosen; and that in the
quarrels, intrigues, and slanders, which followed that election, he
had had too good proof that the ecclesiastics and the mob of Rome, if
he but let them, could behave as ill as that of Constantinople; and,
moreover, that this new Pope John, who seems to have been a hot-
headed fanatic, had begun his rule by whipping and banishing
Manichees--by whose permission, does not appear.