The wisdom of mankind creeps slowly on, Subject to every doubt that can retard Or fling it back upon an earlier time. (Richard Henry Horne)

The wisdom of mankind creeps slowly on, Subject to every doubt that can retard Or fling it back upon an earlier time.

Richard Henry Horne

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