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“We feel like asking: How did such beautiful and useful arts arise, first in Italy and then in other Christian countries, amidst all these convulsions, civil strife, conspiracies, crimes and madness? We never encounter this in places under Turkish rule. This elegance, which is in the intelligence and nature of our European people, must be a feature not encountered in the Turks. Three things affect human intelligence: CLIMATE, GOVERNMENT and RELIGION. There is no other explanation for this riddle of the world.”