"Moreover, the autonomy and differentness of Indian thought could have a very healthy impact on Europeans, ‘“‘who have been born and bred on classical antiquity and the Bible”; the encounter, he believed would result not in ‘“‘a superficia] transformation, but one that stirs the [western tradi- tion’s] very depths.” Those who had met Indian thinkers personally, he continued, could appreciate their profundity and breadth of knowledge, while also seeing the one-sidedness in them that they do not perceive. ‘“Who knows,” he continued, “‘if a similar sort of one-sidedness and narrowness also inheres in us, and in all of the traditional conceptions, in which we were raised, and if we might not learn just as much from the Indians as they can from us, if perhaps in a different way?’’4°"