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Re:The Anglosphere miracle by ravich2_7183 on Saturday October 12, 2013 @02:35AM (#6537562)
What raised the English-speaking peoples to greatness was not a magical property in their DNA, nor a special richness in their soil, nor yet an advantage in military technology, but their political and legal institutions.

This is no doubt aimed at Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, (Geography) & Steel"

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