Lewis Sydney Steward O'Malley

"The wisdom found in Sanskrit works was greeted with something like reverential awe. Thus, the French philosopher Victor Cousin, speaking of the poetical and philosophical movements of the East, and above all, those of India, which were, he said, beginning to spread in Europe, declared that they contained so many truths, and such profound truths, that he was constrained to bend the knee before the genius of the East and to see in that cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy."