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is scattered over parts of Russia and
That is why you find racial Turks in such outlandish places as Merv, Khiva, Samarcand, Bokhara and Cabul, for the Turkish race is not confined to Asia Minor and Turkey in Europe, but is scattered over parts of Russia and China and Afghanistan.
— from Pan-Islam by G. Wyman (George Wyman) Bury

its south or pole of repulsion and
But while the two factors are as poles to each other, each factor has likewise its own poles, and thus in the simple cross— With M M , the magnetic line, running from top to bottom, with f f its northern pole, or pole of attraction; and m m its south, or pole of repulsion, and E E , running from left to right, one of the lines that spring from each point of M M, with its east, or pole of contraction, and d its west, or pole of diffluence and expansion—we have presented to us the universal quadruplicity, or four elemental forms of power; in the endless proportions and [pg 057] modifications of which, the innumerable offspring of all-bearing Nature consist.
— from Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

its sign of pride of race and
No voice was silent, no heart was without its thrill, no face without its sign of pride of race and country.
— from Katharine Frensham: A Novel by Beatrice Harraden


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