"In a letter dated 4 September 1881, he wrote to B. Malabari, an Indian poet and social reformer, on his perceived influence that Hibbert lectures would have on Indian minds—‘the views put forward in my Hibbert lectures are the result of the studies which have not ignored any one of the objections raised against religion whether in England or in India…There is no religion which does not contain some truth, none which contains the whole truth…The first duty which every student of religion has to perform is to make himself acquainted with the books on which each religion claims to be founded. Hence my publication of the Sacred Books of the East , i.e. of the world, for all religions comes from the East’."
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Müller, F. M. (1848). The life and letters of the right honourable Friedrich Max Müller (Vol. 1). s.l.: Longmans, Green and Co. , quoted in Subrata Chattopadhyay Banerjee - The Development of Aryan Invasion Theory in India, A Critique of Nineteenth-Century Social Constructionism-Springer (2020)
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