"When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall……" — Walter Russell Mead

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire… - Walter Russell Mead
"When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed."

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