The Zoroastrians were a colony from Northern India. They had been together for a time with the people whose sacred songs have been preserved to us in… - Friedrich Max Müller

From affection comes grief, from affection comes fear; he who is free from affection knows neither grief nor fear.

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)

हम पढ़ते हैं कि हमारे प्रपितामह स्वर्ग में हैं, पितामह आकाश में हैं, पिता पृथ्वी में हैं। पहले आदित्यों के संग हैं, दूसरे रुद्रों के संग हैं और अन्तिम वसुओं के संग हैं।