"What is Europe really but a sterile trunk which owes everything to oriental grafts?"
— Orientalism

January 1, 1970

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Friedrich Schelling. Letter of 18 December 1806 to Windischmann, quoted in Poliakov, L. (1974). The Aryan myth : a history of racist and nationalist ideas in Europe p. 195, and quoted in Gérard (René). L'Orient et la pensée romantique allemande