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I apologize, I wasn’t sure where I was going with that thought, but here is a bit of substance on what I was getting at,

Our Oriental Heritage page 459 writes:

“…the Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex order and freedom can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without and multiplying from within.”

Q: I would be curious to hear what contemporary historians and philosophers describe Durant’s analysis, and who they are.

Respectfully,
C




Posted on Jan 23, 2006, 10:08 AM

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