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

If a man find no prudent companion who walks with him, is wise, and lives soberly, let him walk alone, like a king who has left his conquered country behind — like an elephant in the forest. 330. It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool; let a man walk alone, let him commit no sin, with few wishes, like an elephant in the forest.

Thus we may infer that the only characteristic difference between modern Christianity and the old heathen faiths is the belief of the former in a personal devil and in hell. "The Aryan nations had no devil," says Max Muller. "Pluto, though of a sombre character, was a very respectable personage; and Loki (the Scandinavian), though a mischievous person, was not a fiend. The German Goddess, Hell, too, like Proserpine, had once seen better days. Thus, when the Germans were indoctrinated with the idea of a real devil, the Semitic Seth, Satan or Diabolus, they treated him in the most good-humored way."

जर्मनों के पास, मकबरों, गोबलेट्स, सार्वजनिक स्मारकों के लिए उनके रूनेस थे लेकिन ये साहित्यिक रचनाओं के लिए नहीं थे। मिलेटस और राजनीतिक और व्यावसायिक जीवन के अन्य केन्द्रों में चाहे कुछ आयोनियनों ने लिखने की कला हासिल कर ली हो, उन्हें लिखने की सामग्री कहाँ से प्राप्त हुई थी? इससे भी ज्यादा यह बात महत्त्व की है