Certainly the condition of our affairs [in Europe], slipping as we are into ever greater corruption, seems to be such that we need missionaries from the Chinese who might teach us the use and practice of natural religion, just as we have sent them teachers of revealed theology.
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Early Modern

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Novissima Sinica (News from China)

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1697

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