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The true law of the race is progress and development. whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
-William Gilmore Simms
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The True Law Of The Race Is

William Gilmore Simms
The true law of the race is progress and development. whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
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The barbarian way was, in some sense, trying to create a volatile fuel to get people to step out and act. it's pretty hard to get a whole group of people moving together as individuals who are stepping into a more mystical, faith-oriented, dynamic kind of experience with christ. so, i think barbarian way was my attempt to say, "look, underneath what looks like invention, innovation and creativity is really a core mysticism that hears from god, and what is fueling this is something really ancient." that's what was really the core of the barbarian way.
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It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. it's really an affair of individuals. one brother will be civilized and the other a barbarian...all civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. a greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a parisian may still do it. but we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.
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My point is, as civilization is progressing, mosaic law came down from the mountain, was handed to civilization, it emerged through the greek civilization as the greeks were developing their age of reason. and we're talking about the foundation of western civilization, and almost concurrently with that, roman law was emerging as well.
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