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The Graeco-Slavonic world, on the contrary, having accepted Christianity not from Rome, but from Byzantium, received pure orthodoxy and true enlightenment, and was thus saved alike from Papal tyranny and from Protestant free-thinking.
* These words were written by Prince Odoefski. This conclusion was supported by arguments drawn from history or, at least, what was believed to be history. The European world was represented as being composed of two hemispheres the Eastern or Graeco-Slavonic on the one hand, and the Western, or Roman Catholic and Protestant, on the other.
The fundamental characteristics of the Graeco-Slavonic world so runs the Slavophil theory have been displayed in the history of Russia.
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