"When the history of the evolution of the historical sciences of the 19th century is told, it will be rightly emphasized that it was in the period from 1880 to 1890 that – timidly at first, but later with an assurance that was better and better justified by the facts – a reaction against the ‘mirage oriental’ was set in motion; the revindication of the rights of Europe against the claims of Asia in the obscurity of the first civilizations."
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quoted in Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Vol. I, published in 1987, by Martin Bernal
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