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Updated: May 15, 2025

Let us remember the case in point of Louis Jacolliot, who spent twenty years in India, who actually knew the language and the country to perfection, and who, nevertheless, was rolled in the mud by Max Muller, whose foot never touched Indian soil. The oldest peoples of Europe are mere babes com-pared with the tribes of Asia, and especially of India.

H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky - From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan

Darwin speaks of the known history of the world as "of a length quite incomprehensible by us," yet even that he affirms "will hereafter be recognised as a mere fragment of time" com-pared with the vast periods which Biology will demand.

G. W. (George William) Foote - Bible Romances: First Series