The hostile spirit of a party, which has been working for the last years, particularly in this country, to attack all the theories of the Sanscrit an… - Friedrich Max Müller

प्रकृति में दक्षिण और उत्तर होते हैं, क्या वैसे ही मानव स्वभाव में दो गोलार्द्ध नहीं होते — एक ओर तो सक्रिय युद्धप्रिय, और राजनीतिक और दूसरी ओर पैसिव, ध्यानी और दार्शनिक। और इस समस्या के हल के लिए कोई भी साहित्य उतनी सामग्री प्रदान नहीं करता जितना वेद, जो ऋचाओं से शुरू होते हैं और उपनिषदों में खत्म होते हैं।

It is necessary that we too should see the beam in our own eyes, and learn to distinguish between the Christianity of the nineteenth century and the religion of Christ. If we find that the Christianity of the nineteenth century does not win as many hearts in India and China as it ought, let us remember that it was the Christianity of the first century in all its dogmatic simplicity, but with its overpowering love of God and man, that conquered the worId and superseded religions and philosophies, more difficult to conquer than the religious and philosophical systems of Hindus and Buddhists. If we can teach something to the Brahmans in reading with them their sacred hymns, they too can teach us something when reading with us the gospel of Christ. Never shall I forget the deep despondency of a Hindu convert, a real martyr to his faith, who had pictured to himself from the pages of the New Testament what a Christian country must be, and who when he came to Europe found everything so different from what he had imagined in his lonely meditations at Benares!

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!