वैदिक कवि प्रतिक्षण परिवर्तनशील इस सुन्दरी उषा की, जिसे ग्रीक भाषा में इओस कहा जाता है, स्वतंत्र रूप से भी स्तुति करता है। यह उषा प्रभात की एक अत्यन्त रूपवती कु… - Friedrich Max Müller

My own experience with regard to the native character has been, of course, very limited. Those Hindus whom I have had the pleasure to know personally in Europe may be looked upon as exceptional, as the best specimens, it may be, that India could produce. Also, my intercourse with them has naturally been such that it could hardly have brought out the darker sides of human nature. During the last twenty years, however, I have had some excellent opportunities of watching a number of native scholars under circumstances where it is not difficult to detect a man's true character — I mean in literary work and, more particularly, in literary controversy. I have watched them carrying on such controversies both among themselves and with certain European scholars, and I feel bound to say that, with hardly one exception, they have displayed a far greater respect for truth and a far more manly and generous spirit than we are accustomed to even in Europe and America. They have shown strength, but no rudeness; nay, I know that nothing has surprised them so much as the coarse invective to which certain Sanskrit scholars have condescended, rudeness of speech being, according to their view of human nature, a safe sign not only of bad breeding, but of want of knowledge. When they were wrong, they have readily admitted their mistakes; when they were right, they have never sneered at their European adversaries. There has been, with few exceptions, no quibbling, no special pleading, no untruthfulness on their part, and certainly none of that low cunning of the scholar who writes down and publishes what he knows perfectly well to be false, and snaps his fingers at those who still value truth and self-respect more highly than victory or applause at any price. Here, too, we might possibly gain by the import cargo.

नियम यह है कि तर्क को, विरोध के साथ, यानी तथाकथित पूर्वपक्ष अर्थात विरोध में जो भी कहा जा सकता है उसके साथ कहा जाना चाहिए। हर आपत्ति का स्वागत है, यदि वह एकदम तुच्छ और मूर्खतापूर्ण नहीं है। इसके बाद ही पक्ष की बात अर्थात उत्तरपक्ष कहा जाना चाहिए और उसमें इन आपत्तियों के खिलाफ और मूल मत के समर्थन में जो कुछ कहा जा सकता है, कहा जाना चाहिए। जब यह प्रक्रिया पूरी की जाती है तभी वह मत सिद्धान्त बनता है या स्थापित होता है।

None of our philosophers, not excepting Heraclitus, Plato, Kant, or Hegel, has ventured to erect such a spire, never frightened by storms or lightnings. Stone follows on stone, In regular succession after once the first step has been made, after once it has been clearly seen that in the beginning there can have been but One, as there will be but One in the end, whether we call it Atman or Brahman.