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The Ruins

by Constantin-François Volney

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A traveller among the ruins of Palmyra is shown by a spirit why empires fall and how religions are made. Jefferson translated part of it, Shelley absorbed it, and Frederick Douglass read it — one of the most influential radical books of its century.

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