[India is the] "lost paradise of all religions and philosophies," "the cradle of humanity," and also its "eternal home," and the great Orient "waiting to be discovered within ourselves." . . . "mankind's origins can be traced to India, where the human mind got the first shapes of wisdom and virtue with simplicity]], strength and sublimity which has - frankly spoken - nothing, nothing at all equivalent in our philosophical, cold European world." . . . "O holy land, I salute thee, thou source of all music, thou voice of the heart' . . . "Behold the East — cradle of the human race, of human emotion, of all religion."