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The new theory of Language has unquestionably produced a new theory of Race . . . If you examine the bases proposed for common nationality before the new knowledge growing out of the study of Sanskrit had popularized in Europe, you will find them extremely unlike those which are now advocated and even passionately advocated in part of the Continent.

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin.

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

The movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

History is a sound aristocrat.

The prejudices of the people are far stronger than those of the privileged classes; they are far more vulgar; and they are far more dangerous, because they are apt to run counter to scientific conclusions.

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