"India seemed to have a powerful attraction for Michelet. In the "Journal" he kept, the following note is to be found: The little ruins of the Mediterranean world can no longer assuage the craving for ruins which is felt by my ravaged heart. I need the desolations, the cataclysms of the Orient, the annihilation of whole races, the deserts...• The Hall of the Nibelungen is not enough. I need the great plain of the Indian world where the Gurus perish by the hundred thousand ...."
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quoted in Poliakov, L. (1974). The Aryan myth : a history of racist and nationalist ideas in Europe p 199-200
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Jules Michelet
Jules Michelet (21 August 1798 – 9 February 1874) was a French historian.
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