"One of the noblest characteristics which distinguish modern civilization from that of remoter times is, that it has enlarged the mass of our conceptions, rendered us more capable of perceiving the connection between the physical and intellectual world, and thrown a more general interest over objects which heretofore occupied only a few scientific men, because those objects were contemplated separately, and from a narrower point of view."
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Alexander von Humboldt
1769 – 1859
deutscher Naturwissenschaftler, Ethnologe und Geograph, Bruder von [[Wilhelm von Humboldt]]
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