Edward Gibbon
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The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings. ✨ Edward Gibbon (2009). The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition, p.237, Modern Library

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