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To speak of the discovery of America as having had an impact at all is probably an error, for it has all too often led to the assumption that the initial failure of Europeans to recognize the newness of the New World, was the consequence of their stubborn insistence on misrepresenting any fragment of the real world of America which threatened their preconceived notions of what should have been there.
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'[Natural law is] the conviction that the values one holds are grounded in the structure of reality, that between the way one ought to live and the way things really are there is an unbreakable inner connection'- Glifford Geertz
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