John Acton: By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.

-- John Acton


		Name: John Acton Type: Historian Nationality: English Birth: January 10, 1834 Death: June 19, 1902

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