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Religion and philosophy have been the great contributions of India to the world.

— William Wilson Hunter Christine Bolt - Victorian Attitudes to Race-Routledge (2006)

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Scholarship is warmed with the holy flame of Christian zeal.

The whole conception of Islam is that of a church either actively militant or conclusively triumphant forcibly converting the world, or ruling the stiff-necked unbeliever with a rod of iron.

To the aboriginal races alone can we appear in the light of friends and deliverers. They have yet to start on the path of progress. It remains for us to decide whether that path is to lead them to Hinduism, or to the purer faith and civilisation which we represent.

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