England is an Empire, Germany a race; France is a person. - Jules Michelet

India seemed to have a powerful attraction for Michelet. In the "Journal" he kept, the following note is to be found: The little ruins of the Mediterranean world can no longer assuage the craving for ruins which is felt by my ravaged heart. I need the desolations, the cataclysms of the Orient, the annihilation of whole races, the deserts...• The Hall of the Nibelungen is not enough. I need the great plain of the Indian world where the Gurus perish by the hundred thousand ....

From India comes to us a torrent of light, a river of Right and Reason.

The intimate fusion of races is the identity of our nation, its personality.