INDIA, WHAT CAN IT TEACH US? - BY MAX MULLER “If I were to look over the whole world to find out the country most richly endowed with all the wealth, power and beauty that nature can bestow, in some parts a very paradise on earth, I should point to India. IF I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant, I should point to India. And if I were to ask myself from what literature we, here in Europe, we who have been nurtured at most exclusively on the thoughts of the Greeks and Romans and of the Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw that corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human a life, not for this life only, but a transfigured and eternal life, again I should point to India.”... ...”Whatever sphere of human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be languages or religion or mythology or philosophy, whether it be laws, or customs, primitive art or primitive science, every where you have to go to India, whether you like it or not, because some of the most valuable and instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India and India only.” - Max Muller (India, What can it teach us?)
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