The texts of Ancient Greece and Rome, translated into several languages, gave the world some of the most important political institutions because they were disseminated far and wide by the work of translators who spread the idea to various corners of the world. ... The lack of translations, of works of literature, spiritual texts and treatises, and other published material alludes to the fact that Western societies have closed themselves to that part of the world, "including movements and societies with potentially dreadful political implications made even more menacing by the general lack of...

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