Here is the actual source of all languages, all the thoughts and poems of the human spirit; everything, everything without exception comes from India.

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Friedrich Schlegel, Letter to Ludwig Tieck of 15 December, 1803, Vorlesungen über Universalgeschichte" (1805-1806); Werke, J.-J. Anstett ed., Vol. XIV, Munich 1960. p. xxxi quoted in Leon Poliakov in The Aryan Myth, p 191. Quoted in A Look at India From the Views of Other Scholars, by Stephen Knapp

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