संस्कृत में काफी कुछ अभी भी लिखा जा रहा है तो हमारे पास साहित्यिक गतिविधि की एक धारा है जो 3400 साल से प्रवाहित हो रही है। चीन को छोड़कर सारे संसार में ऐ… - Friedrich Max Müller

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

Muller may have well felt the need to stress that "an ethnologist who speaks of an Aryan race, Aryan eyes and hair, and Aryan blood is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolicocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar"; after all, it was he who had been a principal cause in such misconceptions through his earlier remarks on the common blood that the "English soldier" shared with the "dark Bengali".

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century in all its dogmatic simplicity, but with its overpowering love of God and man, that conquered the worId and superseded religions and philosophies, more difficult to conquer than the religious and philosophical systems of Hindus and Buddhists.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!