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• Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes…
• Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans…
• Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a…
• Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers.
• All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.
• The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was…
• Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic…
• He who finds a new path is a pathfinder, even if the trail has to be found again by others; and he…

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