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British parliamentarian and soldier Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) conceived of his plan for Decline and Fall while musing amid the ruins of the Capitol on a visit to Rome. For the next 10 years he worked away at his great history, which traces the decadence of the late empire from the time of the Antonines and the rise of Western Christianity. The confusion of the times