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The Philistines

Their History and Civilization
By

R. A. Stewart Macalister, MA., FṢ.A.

(Professor of Celtic Archaeology, University College, Dublin)

The Schweich Lectures

London: Published for the British Academy by Humphrey Milford

[1913]

Welche Ironie der Weltgeschichte, dass die so wenig 'philisterhafte' Nation in mehreren Sprachen Europas jetzt ihren Namen zur Bezeichnung des feigen und langweiligen Spiessbürgers hergeben muss!

W. Max Müller

'Philistinism', after all, stands for two great habits, decency and order.

The Quarterly Review, 1899


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