"We find that it (India) was visited for the purpose of acquiring knowledge by Pythagoras, Anaxarchus, Pyrrho, and others who afterwards became eminent philosophers in Greece."
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Enfield, William The history of philosophy, from the earliest times o the beginning of the present century; drawn up from Brucker 5' Historia cntica philosophiae London: Printed for J. Johnson. 1791 Vol. I p. 65 as quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture
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William Enfield
William Enfield (29 March 1741 – 3 November 1797) was a British Unitarian minister who published a bestselling book on elocution entitled The Speaker (1774).
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