Tag: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

J.M.W. Turner. The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire

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The twenty-first century is nearly a quarter done, and things don’t look so good. It may be time to pause and contemplate the remarkable socially and morally transformative effects of three powerful, intermingling forces that have come into ascendancy. They are the pernicious legacy of the left’s “progressive” ideology, one that relentlessly progresses toward ever more explicit manifestations of deviance and degeneracy. (more…)

Portrait by Joshua Reynolds

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How fares the Truth now? — Ill?
— Do pens but slily further her advance?
May one not speed her but in phrase askance?
Do scribes aver the Comic to be Reverend still?
— Thomas Hardy, “Lausanne, In Gibbon’s Old Garden: 11-12 p.m.”
The 110th anniversary of the completion of the Decline and Fall at the same hour and place

Edward Gibbon was born in Putney, England on May 8, 1737. He was the sole survivor of a family with seven children; he had five brothers and one sister who all died in infancy. (more…)