The Quote That Changed My Life
Actually not mine. That's the title of a must-read post over at My Left Wing. Here is the quote. A dissection of it is over at the link.
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
The actual quote that changed my life is much shorter.
Yes.
posted by SPIIDERWEB™ at 7/06/2006 03:09:00 PM
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2 Comments:
Chuck Dupree (Belisarius) is the resident expert on Edward Gibbon at Bad Attitudes.
A good discussion on how the religious right misconstrues Gibbon is at:
http://www.restorationquarterly.org/Volume_038/rq03802haynie.htm
More in depth discussion of Gibbon is at Chuck's Blog:
http://home.earthlink.net/~count_belisarius/index.htm
Yes, tis sad but true.
Thanx for the links. Great info.
Chuck seems to be resident expert on many things. There's great insight at Bad Attitudes from all contributors.
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