In Hoc Anno Domini

WSJ | December, 1949 | Vermont Royster

[Tom D.]

When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage. There was one state, and it was Rome. There was one master for it all, and he was Tiberius Caesar.

[Tom D.]

This appears at every year in the Wall St. Journal at Christmas. It is worth reading every year.

[T'wit]

Thank you for remembering and posting this great editorial essay. It reads as richly as ever, doesn't it?

[Tom D.]

Well, it looks like it got killed. I figured that since it was first published in 1949 that perhaps the copyright had expired.