Libanius : with Themistius, leading educationist of Greece. Libanius was a famous rhetorician who conducted a school in his native Antioch.
... Christianity; for man cannot live by reason alone. When it was too late, some attempt was made to re-spiritualise the Page 247 old religion, and there was the remarkable effort of Julian and Libanius to set up a regenerated Paganism against triumphant Christianity; but the attempt was too unsubstantial, too purely philosophic, empty of the dynamic power of the religious spirit. Europe had killed ...
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