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Auld lang syne. Second series : $b My Indian friends
Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
India; Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max), 1823-1900 -- Friends and associates
I must say for Dr. Pusey, much as I differed from his views, and much as
I regretted some of the steps he took at Oxford, where his influence for
a time was very great, he always tolerated me, and befriended me on
different occasions. We had a common ground as scholars, and whenever I
seemed to go too far for him, I well remember his looking up to the
clouds and saying, “Oh, I see you are a German still.” When my friends
first submitted to the Delegates of the University Press at Oxford my
plan of publishing, whether at Oxford or at Vienna, translations of all
the Sacred Books of the East, Dr. Pusey, being a Delegate and a very
influential Delegate, strongly supported my plan, only stipulating that
the Old and New Testaments should not be included. In vain did I explain
to him that these two books could never have a better setting than in
the frame formed by the other Sacred Books, and my firm conviction that
the time would come when the gap thus left would be greatly regretted;
but he remained unshaken. I had to give up a wish that was very near to
my heart in order to save the rest, but I still hope that hereafter
these two, the most important of the Sacred Books of the East, will find
their proper place in my collection. Nothing will serve better to show
the difference between these and the rest of the Sacred Books, and to
make us see both what they share in common with the rest, and what it is
that has given to them the overwhelming influence which they have
exercised on the highest destinies of the human race.
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