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“Fatality is the universal and rooted prejudice of the East. ‘It was written,’ is there the answer to every thing. Hence result an unconcern and apathy, the most powerful impediments to instruction and civilization.”


C. F. Volney, The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires (1793; first English-​language edition, 1802)

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