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The true Semitic society is that of the tent and of the tribe.
Histoire générale et système comparé des langues semitiques (1855)
Nature, on the other hand, plays a very small role in the Semitic religions: the desert is monotheistic; sublime in its immense uniformity, it primarily revealed to man the idea of 'infinite.'
Histoire générale et système comparé des langues semitiques (1855)
The Semites did not understand the variety, the plurality, the genders in God: the word goddess in Hebrew is the most horrible barbarism.
Histoire générale et système comparé des langues semitiques (1855)
Thus, the Semitic race is recognizable almost solely through negative characteristics: it has neither mythology, nor epic, nor science, nor philosophy, nor fiction, nor plastic arts, nor civil life; in sum an absence of complexity, of nuance, an exclusive sentiment of unity.
Histoire générale et système comparé des langues semitiques (1855)