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Saturday, December 30, 2023
Reformation
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. J.B. Bury, 3rd ed., Vol. IV (London: Methuen & Co., 1908), pp. 468-469 (chapter XLIV):
It is the first care of a reformer to prevent any future reformation.