“Step by step they were led to things which dispose to vice, the lounge, the bath, the elegant banquet. All this in their ignorance they called civilisation, when it was but a part of their servitude.”
— Tacitus
“Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy’s Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day’s work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city’s reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.”
A general Dissolution of Principles & Manners will more surely overthrow the Liberties of America than the whole Force of the Common Enemy. While the People are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their Virtue they will be ready to surrender their Liberties to the first external or internal Invader. How necessary then is it for those who are determin’d to transmit the Blessings of Liberty as a fair Inheritance to Posterity, to associate on publick Principles in Support of publick Virtue.
— Samuel Adams
Smoking hot off the digital Theodosian presses comes “The Kindly Curmudgeon: All Kinds of Writings from an Ink-Stained Life”, a collection of Gerry Bowler’s Shortest and Greatest Hits. Grab your copy at https://www.amazon.ca/Kindly-Curmudgeon-Kinds-Writings-Ink-Stained-ebook/dp/B01KIC81DW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1475294046&sr=8-2&keywords=the+kindle+curmudgeon
The Theodosian Press is an e-publishing venture that will bring to the reading public new works of history, theology, and literature, as well as reintroducing forgotten classics. We aim to combine scholarly integrity with popular readability and to make our imprint synonymous with entertaining and educational digital books.
The press is named after two emperors of Late Antiquity: Theodosius I defeated the Arian heresy, ended the bloodthirsty gladiatorial games, and rescued enslaved children; Theodosius II invented the university and built the mighty land walls that protected Constantinople for a thousand years.