"India contains the whole history of philosophy in a nutshell."

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“Victor Cousin believed that “We are constrained to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.”

“When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East-above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe-we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness ofthe results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.”

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