"For every ancient nation likes to consider itself the firstborn and to take its territory for humanity’s birthplace."
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quoted in Maurice Olender - Languages of Paradise
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Johann Gottfried Herder
1744 – 1803
deutscher Schriftsteller, Philosoph und Theologe
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