Note 47 — PERIOD V
Reading edition
By a curious and no doubt accidental coincidence, Darwin employs the same remarkable metaphor which had occurred to Iordanes in the sixth century A.D. Iordanes calls the north the officina gentium.
Reading edition
By a curious and no doubt accidental coincidence, Darwin employs the same remarkable metaphor which had occurred to Iordanes in the sixth century A.D. Iordanes calls the north the officina gentium.