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Let the land be named to which Europeans have come without having sinned against defenseless, trusting humanity, perhaps for all aeons to come, through injurious acts, through unjust wars, greed, deceit, oppression, through diseases and harmful gifts! [...]; it has not cultivated but has destroyed the shoots of peoples' own cultures wherever and however it could.

Free investigation of the truth from all sides is the sole antidote against delusion and error of whatever sort they may be. Let the deluded person defend his delusion, the person who thinks differently his thought; that is their business. Even if both of them fail to be corrected, for the unbiased person there certainly arises out of every criticized error a new reason, a new view of the truth.

Set two observers with the same kind of telescope in one spot and they will see more or less similarly; but judge, infer, conjecture about what they have seen - no longer so completely similarly.

And how interesting the philosophy about the childhood of language becomes when I simultaneously see the human soul develop in it, form language according to itself, and form itself according to language. The greatest work of the human spirit!