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Gibbon wrote of decline, of decay, of dissolution, and death; of the days, to use his own words, 'when giants were becoming pigmies.' Bancroft tells the story of birth, and growth, and youth, and life.
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Hoar contrasts the themes of decline in Gibbon's work with the themes of growth and vitality in Bancroft's historical narrative.
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