1. Aims of the Thesis
Does not the sun shine equally for the whole world? Do we not all equally breathe the air? Do you not feel shame at authorizing only three languages and condemning other people to blindness and deafness? Tell me, do you think that God is helpless and cannot bestow equality, or that he is envious and will not give it?”
Constantine the Philosopher (Cyril), 9th Century A.D (Fishman 1968: 589)