“The most powerful instruments of civilization are two - the Christian religion, and education.”

—  Francisco Luís Gomes

Quoted by Nishitha Desai in Lusotopie 2000, p. 474

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Indo-Portuguese physician, writer, historian, economist, po… 1829–1869

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