"INDIA - WHAT CAN IT TEACH US?
By MAX MULLER
"It I were to look over the whole world to find out the
country most richly endowed with all the wealth, power
and beauty that nature can bestow in some parts a very
paradise on earth - I should point to India. If I were
asked under what sky the human mind has most fully devel-
oped some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered
on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions
of some of them which will deserve the attention even of
those who have studied plato and Kant - I should point to
India. And if I were to ask myself from what literature
we, here in Europe, we who have been nurtured almost
exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of
one Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw that corrective
which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more
perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more
truly human, a life, not for this life only but a trans-
figured and eternal life - again I should point to India.
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