Languages seemed to float about like islands on the ocean of human speech; they did not shoot together to form themselves into larger continents . . … - Friedrich Max Müller

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)

जो सक्रिय, जुझारू और हड़पने वाला हो, बल्कि शान्त, ध्यानमय और चिन्तनशील हो? यह आश्चर्यजनक है कि जिन आर्यों ने सिन्धु और गंगा के कुछ सुखद मैदानों और घाटियों में प्रवेश किया उन्होंने जीवन को अनन्त रविवार या छुट्टी के रूप में देखा

Whether listening to the shrieks of the Shaman sorcerers of Tatary, or to the odes of Pindar, or to the sacred songs of Paul Gerhard: whether looking at the pagodas of China, or the Parthenon of Athens, or the cathedral of Cologne: whether reading the sacred books of the Buddhists, of the Jews, or of those who worship God in spirit and in truth, we ought to be able to say, like the Emperor Maximilian, 'Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto,' or, translating his words somewhat freely, 'I am a man, nothing pertaining to man I deem foreign to myself.'