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I wish to point out that there was another sphere of intellectual activity in which the Hindus excelled–the meditative and transcendent–and that here we might learn from them some lessons of life which we ourselves are but too apt to ignore or to despise.

— Max Müller India, What Can It Teach Us (1882)

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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.

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