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thought, in speech, in art, in religion, in philosophy and in all the considerable factors of great, but ubiecorded civilizations. Such monuments of learning, boti subtle and simple, suggesting a knowledge of nature and of man which only centuries upon centuries of growth can answer for, cannot be considered as modern, even as similar monuments of Egypt, of Greece, or of the Hebrew nation, but must antedate them all and in a sense which will get be
affitciated, prove to be their motherhood. In closing this part of my utterance to you, I will quote one more passage from the same distinguished authority that I have already named Prof. Max Muller says “ 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 wbat sky the human mind has most fully developed some of the choicest gifts, bas most deeply pondered on the greatest problem 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 almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of one Semitic tace, the Jewish, may diaw that corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, inore compre
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