Schaeffer on Gibbon on Rome

"Edward Gibbon in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788) said that the following five attributes marked Rome at its end: first, a mounting love of show and luxury (that is, affluence); second, a widening gap between the very rich and the very poor (this could be among countries in the family of nations as well as in a single nation); third, and obsession with sex; fourth, freakishness in the arts, masquerading as originality, and enthusiasms pretending to be creativity; fifth, and increased desire to live off the state. It all sounds so familiar. We have come a long road since our first chapter, and we are back in Rome."
-Francis Schaeffer from How Should We Then Live?