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The three great elements of modern civilisation, Gunpowder, Printing and the Protestant… — Thomas Carlyle

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The three great elements of modern civilisation, Gunpowder, Printing and the Protestant Religion.

Thomas Carlyle
1827
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1827
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Carlyle, Thomas. "State of German Literature." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 26, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Carlyle, Thomas. "State of German Literature." Edinburgh Review, Oct. 1827.

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