The eternity of the world / By G.H. Toulmin.

  • George Hoggart Toulmin
Date:
1785
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Credit: The eternity of the world / By G.H. Toulmin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    brated cities and habitations of mankind, fuf- fer a partial or total fubverfion, and by con- vuifions and revolutions, violent indeed be¬ yond our experience or conception, yet un¬ equal to the deftrudtion of the globe, or the whole of the human fpecies! It is well known, even from hiftories and traditions that we are at prefent poflefted of, which can never reafonably be cfteemed but of a modern date, or the molt trifling and infigniflcant an¬ tiquity, and which give us little or no infight into the hiftory of mankind, or the events that have taken place in the world, that the learning and the records of Greece and Rome, which have been the objefts of fuch juft and univerlal admiration, together with all their civilisation, their ufeful and refined accom- % plifbments, were in danger of being entirely deftroyed, by the irruptions and devaluations, of the northern and barbarous nations. For¬ tunately, however, fome few relics and monu¬ ments of their ineftimable accomplishments, have been preferved to us. Yet ruinous in their eftedls as thefe irruptions and depreda¬ tions molt undoubtedly w!ere, they are yet trifling compared with what may be conceived to
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