Identifier: reviewofreviewsw22newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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successwas derived from the firm conviction that, in thepresent state of philological, historical, and philo-sophical research, no literary work was of greaterimportance and interest to the philologist, thehistorian, and the philosopher than theVeda,the oldest literary monument of the Indo-Eu-ropean world. After the immense difficulties ofresearch, of deciphering, of interpretation, theendless task of copying, transcribing, compar-ing had been completed, there remained the veryformidable material problem of publication.Here was an author whose first work was in anunknown tongue, and so voluminous that tens ofthousands of dollars would hardly represent thecost of printing it, while the sale could hardly bemore than nominal. That Max Miiller easilyovercame this most formidable obstacle gives usthe clew to one of his greatest qualities—his powerof communicating to others his immense enthu-siasm for abstract thought, his unselfish devotion,his vision of things to come. The Directors of
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PROF. MAX MULLEB. (In costume as one of the eight foreign members of theFrench Institute.) the East India Company willingly bore the burden,consenting in words which take us back to a by-gone age : The court considers that the publica-tion of so important and interesting a work asthat to which your proposal refers is in a peculiarmanner deserving of the patronage of tlie EastIndia Company, connected as it is with the earlyreligion, history, and language of the great bodyof their Indian subjects. The East India Com-pany is gone, fallen forever in the giganticstruggle of the mutiny ; its Court of Directorsbelong as much to history as the South-SeaHouse. But Max Miillers work remains. Hehimself held an even higher view of it than thatwhich they expressed. The Veda was, in hiseyes, for the whole Aryan world what Homerwas to the Greeks, the Koran to the Arabs,Shakespeare to the speakers of English—the mostvenerable monument of our Western world. Twosentences will show the broad and human

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