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The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing
Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native
purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian.
He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and
corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon
Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.
-Edward Gibbon
The Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire, XV
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