Edward Gibbon Quote

The mathematics are distinguished by a peculiar privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.


In: Great Books of the Western World (Volume 41), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter LII, Section 59 (p. 299)


The mathematics are distinguished by a peculiar privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

The mathematics are distinguished by a peculiar privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

The mathematics are distinguished by a peculiar privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

The mathematics are distinguished by a peculiar privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.