Source: Popular Political Economy: Four lectures delivered at the London Mechanics Institution (1827), p. 30
“Ruins—antique ruins at least—are what is left when history has moved on.”
Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993)
Context: Ruins—antique ruins at least—are what is left when history has moved on. They are no longer at the mercy of history, only of time. (p. 207).
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