With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West. - Bryan Ward-Perkins - Quotesmemo.com

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Bryan Ward-Perkins

With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.

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In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and civility, which the Romans had spread through Europe, disappeared. Not only the arts of elegance, which minister to luxury, and re supported by it, but many of the useful arts, without which life can scarcely be contemplated as comfortable, were neglected or lost.

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