Show A THOUGHT I 1 remember re tint tivit adam adim smith and an dg gibbon ab b 1 I i had llad told us that there would never i ghi he e a destruction destruct ion iou of civilia by barbarians barbi rians the til flood they sad s ild iid would no more mora return to cover the earth and they seemed to reason teason justly for they compared the linin immense ense euse atrel strength streng gih ih of the civilized part of the world with the weakness of tha part which remained savage ravage and slid asked boru front whence were to come thosa huns nuns and slid from whence weri to come thosa vandals Van vau daia dala who wera were to egizii destroy civilization alas aias at it did not occur to them that in fit the very heart ol 01 great capitals in the tiie very neighborhood bor hord hool horl I 1 of splendid palaces and churches and the theatre atres and libraries and museum museums ss vice and ignorance ign oraLce and misery might produce a il race of ilung fiercer hercer than those who marched under attili atlin and vandals more mord bent on 01 destruction than those who wiio fol foi followed genseric Gens iric l M fica ulay |