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admiration of Hinu virtues which impressed the foreigners who came into contact with them before Christian civilization reached us, but time will not permit me to do so. My main purpose is to show to you that the presence and predominating influence of foreigners, Scytheons, Mongolians, Mahomedans of Christians has been to deteriorate India. The literature and philosophy of Ancient India have excited the admiration of all scholars except Christian Missionaries.
If I were asked under what sky the buman 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 af those who have studied Plato and Kant-I should point to India. And if I were to ask myself from what literature we hear in Europe, we who have been nuntured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans and of one Semitic race, the jewish, may draw that corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human, a life, not for this life alone, but a transfigured and eternal life-again I should point to India.” “Before India became the hunting-ground of foreign marauders, she had produced poets and philosophers at whose feet Homer or Plato, Shakespear or Bacon
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