"Let us abandon these regions where our predecessors, like Buet, Buxtorf or Bochart, sought the beginnings of the world! These corners of Arabia and Judaea, these basins of the Nile and the Euphrates, these coasts of Phoenicia and Damascus, where the human race might have come into existence like mice or rats; all these must be left behind! Let us scale the mountain laboriously to the summit of Asia. Where will this lead us? The horizons swing back and forth. History, which has dated all things from that beginning, will have another beginning and another end."
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Herder, quoted in Leon Poliakov - The Aryan myth A history of racist and nationalist ideas in Europe-Sussex University Press (1974), page 187
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Johann Gottfried Herder
1744 – 1803
deutscher Schriftsteller, Philosoph und Theologe
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