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This . . . shows, better than anything else, how violent a shock was given by the discovery of Sanskrit to prejudices most deeply engrained in the mi… - Friedrich Max Müller
" "This . . . shows, better than anything else, how violent a shock was given by the discovery of Sanskrit to prejudices most deeply engrained in the mind of every educated man. The most absurd arguments found favor for a time, if they could only furnish a loophole by which to escape the unpleasant conclusion that Greek and Latin were of the same kith and kin as the language of the black inhabitants of India.
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About Friedrich Max Müller
Friedrich Max Müller (6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900), more commonly known as Max Müller (or Mueller), was a German philologist and Orientalist, who was a major pioneer of the discipline of comparative religion.
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Rt. Hon. Friedrich Max Muller
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Professor Friedrich Max-Muller
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Friedrich Maximilian Müller
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ऋग्वेद पढ़नेवाले प्रत्येक विद्यार्थी को आठ वर्ष तक गुरु के घर में बिताना होता है। उसे दस ग्रन्थ पढ़ने होते हैं : प्रथम, ऋग्वेद की ऋचाएँ, फिर यज्ञों का गद्य ग्रन्थ जिसे ब्राह्मण कहते हैं, फिर अरण्यक, फिर घरू समारोहों के नियमों को, और अन्त में शिक्षा, व्याकरण, कल्प, निरुक्त, छन्द और ज्योतिष का अध्ययन करना पड़ता है।
These two sciences. the Science of Language and the Science of Man, cannot. at least for the present, be kept too much asunder; and many misunderstandings, many controversies, would have been avoided. if scholars had not attempted to draw conclusions from language to blood, or from blood to language. When each of these sciences shall have carried out independently its own classification of men and languages, then, and then only, will it be time to compare their results; but even then, I must repeat, what I have said many times before, it would be as wrong to speak of Aryan blood as of dolichocephalic grammar.(61)
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