Man’s mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find those causes is implanted in man’s soul. And without considering the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, he snatches at the first approximation to a cause that seems to him intelligible, and says: ‘This is the cause!’
Leo Tolstóy, War and Peace, 1865–69, opening sentence of Book XIII (Macmillan translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude, 1942, p. 1089).
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Phillipson, R. Linguistic imperialism: a conspiracy, or a conspiracy of silence?. Lang Policy 6, 377–383 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-007-9058-3
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