frightful crime Cyril was never called to account. It seemed to
be admitted that the end sanctified the means.

So ended Greek philosophy in Alexandria, so came to an untimely
close the learning that the Ptolemies had done so much to
promote. The "Daughter Library," that of the Serapion, had been
dispersed. The fate of Hypatia was a warning to all who would
cultivate profane knowledge. Henceforth there was to be no
freedom for human thought. Every one must think as the
ecclesiastical authority ordered him, A.D. 414. In Athens itself
philosophy awaited its doom. Justinian at length prohibited its
teaching, and caused all its schools in that city to be closed.

PELAGIUS. While these events were transpiring in the Eastern
provinces of the Roman Empire, the spirit that had produced them
was displaying itself in the West. A British monk, who had
assumed the name of Pelagius, passed through Western Europe and
Northern Africa, teaching that death was not introduced into the
world by the sin of Adam; that on the contrary he was necessarily
and by nature mortal, and had he not sinned he would nevertheless
have died; that the consequences of his sins were confined to
himself, and did not affect his posterity. From these premises
Pelagius drew certain important theological conclusions.

At Rome, Pelagius had been received with favor; at Carthage, at
the instigation of St. Augustine, he was denounced. By a synod,
held at Diospolis, he was acquitted of heresy, but, on referring
the matter to the Bishop of Rome, Innocent I., he was, on the
contrary, condemned. It happened that at this moment Innocent
died, and his successor, Zosimus, annulled his judgment and