Wilfred Scawen Blunt: 4 books

The destruction of beauty in the name of science, the destruction of happiness in the name of progress, the destruction of reverence in the name of religion, these are the pharisaic crimes of all the white races; but there is something in the Anglo-Saxon impiety crueller still: that it also destroys,...

When it first appeared in 1882, this book was a pioneering work in every respect. It was the first coherent study of 'modern' Islam, explaining in a simple and functional manner its tenets and roots, the diversity of its cultural and political experience, and its dynamism and potential for good in...

Einleitung Die Verfasserin nachstehender Erinnerungen, Gräfin A. A. Tolstoi, war elf Jahre älter als Leo Tolstoi; sie wurde 1817 geboren und starb 1904. Von 1846 bis zu ihrem Tode war sie Hofdame, zunächst bei der Tochter Kaiser Nikolaus’ I., Maria Nikolajewna, späteren Herzogin von Leuchtenburg....

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