Many many centuries before us, India had devised most of the philosophical systems which Europe experienced with later. They contained, at least in its essence, the philosophy of the Greeks, the Alexandrine mystique, the religious speculation of the Middle Ages, the rationalism, of the XIXth century and even the most recent incarnations of modem pantheism.
French orientalist, interpreter, translator (1897–1980)
Jean Herbert was one of the first generation of interpreters for the United Nations organization.
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