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p175- “in countries where you have not yet come to terms with your history, you become blind to how it is repeated, how old colonialism just changes shape, finds fresh arguments, new forms.” and “As children of the sun, people must guard the land, otherwise we wouldn’t be here.”

“literature is not the place, however, in which to learn history but to understand it. The reader who knows history enriches literature with his knowledge.”

Both Faust and Humboldt believed that ferocious activity and enquiry brought understanding- and both found strength in the natural world and believed in the unity of nature