"When one permits those whom one studies to define the terms in which they will be understood, suspends one’s interest…"

"It now strikes me that the attempt to reconstruct a prototypical (“Proto- Indo-European") form from which all atteste…"

"Even the unhappy example of scholarship on myth, particularly that on Aryan or Indo-European myth, is one forced to c…"

""As a student of history of religions, I (Lincoln) was taught that Fredric Max Muller inaugurated our discipline but …"

"Herder developed his theory of Asia as the original homeland and site of human unity in the second volume of his Idee…"

"Reading Jones with these preconceptions and interests, Germans rapidly came to see themselves as a Volk with a much d…"

"One might think this position (that the English colonialist should convert their Indian "brethren" to the Gospel) wou…"

"His accomplishments and large body of admirers notwithstanding, Jones's reputation has slipped in recent years, parti…"

"First, the hypothesis for which Sir William Jones is most famous had deep antecedents and was always problematic. Mos…"

""Scholars from Sir William Jones to the PRESENT imagined this group (Aryans aka Indo-Europeans) as their most ancient…"