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The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an

The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians.

Edward Gibbon
Humanity, Church, Encounters
Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.349

If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.

Edward Gibbon
Humanity, Sorrow, Cottages
Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.24

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

Edward Gibbon
Feelings, Humanity, Emotion
Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.814, Wordsworth Editions

War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.

Edward Gibbon
War, Justice, Humanity
Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.871, Modern Library

History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents

Edward Gibbon
Historical, Humanity, Lists

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