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Alexander von Humboldt - In order to ameliorate...
In order to ameliorate without commotion new institutions must be made, as it were, to rise out of those which the barbarism of centuries has consecrated. (Alexander von Humboldt)

In order to ameliorate without commotion new institutions must be made, as it were, to rise out of those which the barbarism of centuries has consecrated.

Alexander von Humboldt

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