"Around us knowledge has been extinguished, and recruitment of men of religion and men of law has ceased; that is to say, we have made Muslim society much more miserable, more disordered, more ignorant, and more barbarous than it had been before knowing us."
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Alexis de Tocqueville, Travail sur l'Algerie, Travels in Algeria p. 185
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