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Edward Gibbon Quotes about Growth

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' (1776-88) ch. 71

The science of the laws is the slow growth of time and experience.

Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman, Guizot (M., François), Sir William Smith (1862). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.285