Philosophy, Qabbala and Vedānta: Comparative Metaphysics and Ethics, Retionalism and Mysticism, of the Jews, the Hindus and Most of the Historic Nations, As Links and Developments of One Chain of Universal Philosophy (Classic Reprint)

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The pioneer philologist and philosopher, Frederick Schlegel, correctly surmised, in his linguistic studies, that human speech, human thought and human motives have really but one root, one sap and one goal, all basing and all culminating in monotheism. In his work on Indian Language, Literature and Philosophy (p. He says: It cannot be denied that the early Indians possessed a knowledge of the true God. All their writings are replete with such sentiments and utterances, noble, clear and austerely grand, as deeply conceived and rev erentially expressed as in any human language. The same writer, again, speaking of Hindu philosophy, says: The divine origin of man is there continually inculcated to stimulate his efforts, to animate him in the struggle to consider a reunion and reincorporation with his divine origin, as the one primary Object Of his exertions.

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