The students of history can be greatly benefited by the work of Edward Gibbon. There could be no substitute for the “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” in the European Literature. It has achieved uninterrupted proclamation of a vast period of time comprehended by it. Some of the subjects embraced by the journal have undergone complete investigation and research of the entire period of ancient time. This piece of history is considered as the sole authority which would appeal the few original writers or even to the modern editors and compilers. The intrinsic interest of the historical subject and the immense labor entrusted upon it, the inexhaustible condensation of content; the magnificent arrangement; the overall style and accuracy; these factors are completely vigorous and highly picturesque which would command great attention. It would always convey the overall and the deepest meaning with unending energy which is described in singular breadth accuracy. The journal has made its permanent mark in the historic European literature.The vast compilation and the design of Gibbon, and the supremacy with which he has cast and portrayed the downfall of the Roman Empire; the birth and formation of the new things and principles; are all accurately rendered by the “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”. As stated by the eminent French editor M. Guizot; the decline of the most extraordinary civilization which was ever able to invade and oppress the world; the fall of the vast prosperous empire, which was erected on the ruins of many republics, kingdoms, and barbarous states. The annihilation of the religion of Rome and Greece was witnessed with the birth and advancement of the two religions which shared the most beautiful era of the Earth by the degenerative manners and the expiring glory. The Roman Empire observed the infancy of the modern world and the flashbacks of its first advancement with a new direction given to man and culture.
