1. A name, a rank, a character, in the world; 2. The plenitude of paternal power; 3. The vacant space of the eternal city; 4. A liberal education and understanding; 5. Order and perspicuity; 6. A fair and authentic history.
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire demands and deserves the kind of attention readers habitually grant to the classics of fictional literature.
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