"May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, or the Phoenician, or whoever it was that invented books!"
— Phoenicia

January 1, 1970

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History of Asia
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Thomas Carlyle, Letter to Thomas Mitchell and Thomas Murray (20 February 1818); Moncure D. Conway, Thomas Carlyle (New York: Harper & Bros, 1881) p. 164