Indeed, it may well be argued that one reason for the decline in science, art, and literature was the increasing absorption of the better minds into a new sort of intellectual pursuit – theology.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Indeed, it may well be argued that one reason for the decline in science, art, and literature was the increasing absorption of the better minds into a new sort of intellectual pursuit – theology." in the context of "The Roman Empire (1967), p. 118" to mean that wisdom is timeless.