"No place in the world has had a comparable role to that of the nameless mountain or valley where mankind first attained self-consciousness. Let us be proud ... of the old patriarchs who, at the foot of Imaiis, laid the foundations of what we are and of what we shall become."
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Poliakov, L. (1974). The Aryan myth : a history of racist and nationalist ideas in Europe page 208
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Ernest Renan
1823 – 1892
französischer Schriftsteller, Historiker, Archäologe und Orientalist
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