"then, indeed, the Hindoos no less than ourselves would have recognized the bond of unity between us because of the common ancestors from whose loins we both alike are sprung, and we no less than they should have seen that in coming to Hindostan with our advanced civilization, we were returning home with splendid gifts to visit a member of one common family, and that the meeting between us was but the meeting of Esau and Jacob after long years of separation, – who met each other with mutual affection and the kiss of peace, although from the womb it had been prophesied respecting them that ‘the elder should serve the younger.’"
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Farrar, F.W. (1878) Language and languages, being “Chapters on Language” and “Families of speech”, London: Longmans, Green & Co. quoted in Linguistics and the Third Reich: Mother-tongue Fascism, Race and the Science of Language (Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics) by Christopher Hutton
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Frederic Farrar
Frederic William Farrar (Bombay, 7 August 1831 – Canterbury, 22 March 1903), often known as Dean Farrar, was a theological writer.
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