"I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc."
— India

January 1, 1970

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Voltaire, Lettres sur l'origine des sciences et sur celle des peuples de l'Asie adressés à M. de Voltaire par M. Bailly et précédées de quelques lettres de M. de Voltaire a l'auteur, Paris 1777, p. 3 (letter from Voltaire of 15 December 1775). Quoted from Poliakov, L. (1974). The Aryan myth : a history of racist and nationalist ideas in Europe. p. 185