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The attitude of the Shah towards science is one which is not altogether unknown in this country. Most people think of Easter as a Christian festival, but it is really in name and origin a pagan one. The Germans, like ourselves, keep its true pagan name, "Ostern." Terrible quarrels have occurred in early ages over fixing Easter Day and its exact relation to the Jewish calendar.
Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester - More Science From an Easy Chair
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