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I fear he would have a lot in common with the far-right, populist parties in present day Europe though. In the same paragraph that contains your quote, you also
by pimmen 8y ago
I fear he would have a lot in common with the far-right, populist parties in present day Europe though. In the same paragraph that contains your quote, you also find this:
"Where the weak could find a welcome and a refuge in celibate monasteries or sisterhoods, and lastly, where the better sort of emigrants and refugees from other lands were invited and welcomed, and their descendants naturalised."
- 1996 8y agoJudged with our modern standard, most of people who lived more than 100 years before are barbarians/far right/populists/whatever else you want to call them. Guess how we will be judged in 100 year from now?
- zeveb 8y agoThat doesn't really sound far-right or populist to me: he was in favour of immigration, and naturalising the descendants of immigrants, which was a particularly progressive idea back when nationality and ethnicity were so tightly bound together. Of course, the neat categories of the present don't really apply to the messy past, nor will the neat categories of the future apply to the messy present.