Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel — "Oriental empires have no history, properly speaking, because they are merely a s…"

Oriental empires have no history, properly speaking, because they are merely a succession of governments which, as they arise and pass away, leave no traces behind them.
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Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (Introduction)

Date: 1830-1831 (published posthumously)

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