"[O]ur feelings of superiority are built on the quicksand of ignorance."
— Greatness

January 1, 1970

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Carl Becker, “Von Peking bis Damaskus: Eindrücke von einer Studienreise durch Asien,” quoted in Suzanne L. Marchand - German Orientalism in the Age of Empire. Religion, Race, and Scholarship-Cambridge University Press (2009)