"The fallacy originated from the unhesitating belief of Müller that Christianity and Europe blossomed forth ahead of the growth of any civilization at any point of time in human history. All his efforts were in tune with the resurrection of those lost kins. As he spoke in the Hibbert lecture series on 21 June 1878, ‘I hope the time will come when the subterranean area of human religion will be rendered more and more accessible,… and that the Science of Religion, which at present is but a desire and a seed, will in time become a fulfillment and a plenteous harvest. When that time of harvest has come, when the deepest foundations of all the religions of the world have been laid free and restored’. Of course, his other labour of love was, to explain his critics that his efforts are actually dedicated towards Christianity—‘I feel very certain, that this translation of the Sacred Books of the East , which some of the good people here consider most objectionable, will do a great deal towards lifting Christianity into its high historical position’. Müller wrote to lady Welby on July 27, 1879."
January 1, 1970
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