| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Mr. Hume, in his Essay on the `Rise of the Arts,??? lays it down as an axiom that ???when the arts and sciences come to perfection in any state, from that moment they naturally or rather necessarily decline, and seldom or never revive in that nation where they formerly flourished..??? That any art, or other pursuit, when it has reached the highest perfection of which it is capable, can proceed no
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