Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Lessons Learned From Reading The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

  • I feel a great comfort and relief knowing that there were others who lived and died and thought and fought so long ago; I feel less tyrannized by the present day.
  • I learn much about the way our society really works, because the system-origins - military, religious, political, colonial, agricultural, financial - are all there to be scrutinized in their infancy. I have gained perspective.
  • The language in which the book is written is rich and complete, as the language of today is not.
  • I find out how little I know.
  • I am inspired by the will and erudition which enabled Gibbon to complete a work of twenty-odd years. The guy stuck with things.

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