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Excerpt from La Havane, Vol. 3
La science nous vient de l'europe et de l'a m�rique septentrionale par les voyages, les livres les communications orales, et par ce mouvement magn�tique, le plus grand des phe nom�nes moraux, qui ne permet � aucune lati tude de rester �trang�re � ce qui se passe sous les latitudes plus �loign�es. Ll'n'y a point, vous le savez, mon cher duc, de murailles pour la pens�e; et cela est si vrai, que la civilisation chinoise elle - m�me va �tre entam�e tout � l'heure par la guerre, introductrice brutale de la lumi�re europ�enne. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.