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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

John Acton Biography

  Nationality: English
Type: Historian

Born: January 10, 1834
Death: June 19, 1902
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