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  • The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal circumstance that distinguishes a civilised people from a herd of savages incapable of knowledge or reflection. Without that artificial help, the human memory soon dissipates or corrupts the ideas intrusted to her charge; and the nobler faculties of the mind, no longer supplied with models or with materials, gradually forget their powers; the judgment becomes feeble and lethargic, the imagination languid or irregular.

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    Edward Gibbon (1854). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.354
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Edward Gibbon

  • Born: April 27, 1737
  • Died: January 16, 1794
  • Occupation: Historian
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