तीन हजार साल पहले लोग ऐसे विचारों से परिचित थे जो हमें नए और 19वीं सदी के समान दिखते हैं, तो हमें आदिम बर्बर की हमारी अवधारणाओं में कुछ संशोधन कर लेना… - Friedrich Max Müller

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

There will be and can be no rest till we admit, what cannot be denied, that there is in man a third faculty, which I call simply the faculty of apprehending the Infinite, not only in religion, but in all things; a power independent of sense and reason, a power in a certain sense contradicted by sense and reason; but yet, I suppose, a very real power, if we see how it has held its own from the beginning of the world — how neither sense nor reason has been able to overcome it, while it alone is able to overcome both reason and sense.

The translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of millions of souls in that country. It is the root of their religion, and to show them what the root is, I feel sure, is the only way of uprooting all that has sprung from it during the last 3000 years.