William Gilmore Simms Quote

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.


Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside (ed. 1853)


The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.