In APOCALYPSE (1931), his posthumously published last blast against Christianity, Western civilisation and its intellectual colonisation of the world, DH Lawrence rues how “Hindus” had been denied credit even for the discovery of the zero. Instead, the zero had come from the Arabs, like the “Arabic numerals”, because they were more “like us”. The artistic … Continue reading "The Empire of Ideas"

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