foremost part, and to enjoy an unrivalled pre-eminence. The intellectual life of Antioch, where the new faith had first captured the Gentile heart, was feeble in comparison with that of Alexandria. Athens was too intimately associated with the faded glories of polytheism to dispute with her the supremacy. The genius of Rome lay in the direction not of lofty speculation, but of iron rule, and her Christian population naturally imbibed something of her spirit. The Church of Jerusalem was disqualified