"All the peoples of Europe and, to begin with, those which were originally related and which gained supremacy at the cost of many wanderings and dangers, emigrated from Asia in the remote past. They were propelled from East to West by an irresistable instinct (unhemmbarer Trieb), the real cause of which is unknown to us.... The vocation and courage of those peoples, which were originally related and destined to rise to such heights, is shown by the fact that European history was almost entirely made by them."
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Poliakov, L. (1974). The Aryan myth : a history of racist and nationalist ideas in Europe, 198
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Jacob Grimm
1785 – 1863
deutscher Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftler
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