"Der Theologe kann der angenehmen Aufgabe frönen, die Religion zu beschreiben, wie sie in ihre ursprüngliche Reinheit bekleidet, vom Himmel herunterkam. Dem Historiker wird aber eine leidigere Aufgabe aufgezwungen. Er muss die unvermeidliche Mischung von Mängeln und Korruption entdecken, die sich während eines langen Aufenthalts auf der Erde, bei einer schwachen und entarteten Rasse von Wesen, eingesammelt hat."
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Edward Gibbon
1737 – 1794
englischer Historiker und Schriftsteller
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