Soon The Child Learns That There Are

What Is Emitted From The Divine, Though It Be Only Like The Reflection From The Fire, Still Has The Divine Reality In Itself, And One Might Almost Ask What Were The Fire Without Glow, The Sun Without Light, Or The Creator Without The Creature?

In The History Of The World The Vedas Fill A Gap Which No Literary Work In Any Other Language Could Fill. I Maintain That To Everybody Who Cares For Himself For His Ancestors For His Intellectual Development A Study Of The Vedic Literature Is Indeed Indispensable.

The Vedic Literature Opens To Us A Chapter In What Has Been Called The Education Of The Human Race To Which We Can Find No Parallel Anywhere Else.

Would You Say That Any One Sacred Book Is Superior To All Others In The World? ... I Say The New Testament, After That, I Should Place The Koran, Which In Its Moral Teachings, Is Hardly More Than A Later Edition Of The New Testament. Then Would Follow According To My Opinion The Old Testament, The Southern Buddhist Tripitaka, The Tao-te-king Of Laotze, The Kings Of Confucius, The Veda And The Avesta.

I Have Declared Again And Again That If I Say Aryans, I Mean Neither Blood Nor Bones, Nor Hair Nor Skull; I Mean Simply Those Who Speak An Aryan Language. In That Sense, And In That Sense Only, Do I Say That Even The Blackest Hindus Represent An Earlier Stage Of Aryan Speech And Thought Than The Fairest Scandinavians. To Me An Ethnologist Who Speaks Of Aryan Race, Aryan Blood, Aryan Eyes And Hair, Is As Great A Sinner As A Linguist Who Speaks Of A Dolichocephalic Dictionary Or A Brachycephalic Grammar.