Friday, April 24, 2020
To a Philosophic Eye
Edward Gibbon (1773-1794), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter XLIX (on Pope John XII):
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The Protestants have dwelt with malicious pleasure on these characters of Antichrist; but to a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.
