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Sacred Texts Age of Reason
XVII. Topographical Notes Index
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p. 270

On the natives of hot countries.Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them; and therefore they are of the colour of night, that is black. And in cold countries it is just the contrary.

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270:616 : The sketch here inserted is in MS. H3 55b.

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