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The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the same doctrine for a thousand years without finding in the entire history of Rome anything but flat contradiction. - Henry Brooks Adams
Attribution: Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918), U.S. historian. The Education of Henry B. Adams, p. 803, Library of America (1983).

Categories: Evolution, Historian, History, Religion

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