In learning and moderation Fra Paola was not inferior to Grotius.

The priority of time gives some advantage to the evidence of the former, which he loses, on the other hand, by the distance of Venice from the Netherlands.] [Footnote 186a: Eusebius and the author of the Treatise de Mortibus Persecutorum.

It is deeply to be regretted that the history of this period rest so much on the loose and, it must be admitted, by no means scrupulous authority of Eusebius.

Ecclesiastical history is a solemn and melancholy lesson that the best, even the most sacred, cause will eventually the least departure from truth!--M.].