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"A cloud of critics, of compilers, of commentators, darkened the face of learning, and the decline of genius was soon followed by the corruption of taste.

"...this age of indolence passed away without having produced a single writer of original genius....

"The authority ... still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind.

"The name of Poet was almost forgotten; that of Orator was usurped by the sophists."

-Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Juke(97): Yea, Plotinus, now there's a guy who argues his points very well. I mean a few beers with that dude and we'd all be libertarian communists

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