Autores:
  • The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind.

    Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1”, p.55