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“What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

“Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the free play of economic forces, unified social groups become the transmitters of culture.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)