si, quidquid rudibus mundi nascentis in annis mos habuit, sancte colere ac servare necesse est, omne revolvamus sua per vestigia saeclum usque ad principium, placeat damnare gradatim quidquid posterius successor repperit usus.
If we must needs scrupulously observe and keep up all that was customary in the rude years of the nascent world, let us roll all time back on its tracks right up to the beginning, and decide to condemn step by step all that successive experience has found out in later ages.
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