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NUMBER:62851
QUOTATION:Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.
ATTRIBUTION:Giambattista Vico (1688–1744), Italian philosopher, historian. The New Science, bk. 1, para. 144 (1744, trans. 1984).
 
 
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