That which stood there aere perennis the imperium Romanum the most magnificent form of organization under difficult conditions that has ever been achieved, and compared to which everything before it and after it appears as patchwork, bungling, dilletantism those holy anarchists made it a matter of piety to destroy the world, which is to say the imperium Romanum so that in the end not a stone stood upon another and even Germans and other such louts were able to become its masters.