"Out of the East came the light! ... the march of civilization has always tended to follow the light of the sun."
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Quoted in Jean-Paul Demoule, The Indo-Europeans: Archaeology, Language, Race, and the Search for the Origins of the West (2023)
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August Friedrich Pott
August Friedrich Pott (14 November 1802 in Nettelrede, Hanover – 5 July 1887 in Halle) was a German pioneer in linguistics.
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