In the gradual transformation of the old world of classical antiquity into the world with which the statesmen of to-day must deal, no man played a greater part than Charles the Great,[1] King of the Franks and Emperor of Rome. The sharp lines of demarcation which we often draw between period and period, and which are useful as helps to memory, have not for the most part had any real existence in history, for in the world of men, as in the development of the material universe, it is true that uniformity rather than cataclysm is the rule: _Natura non vadit per saltum_. Still there are some great landmarks,[2] such as the foundation of Constantinople, Alaric’s capture of Rome, the Hegira of Moh…
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