'' For  thousands of  years  , India  has  peacefully  existed . Here  activities  prevailed   when  Greece  even  did  not  exist , when  Rome  was  not  thought of . When  the  very  fathers  of  modern  Europeans  lived  in  the  forest  and  painted  themselves  blue .
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We,,  of  all  the  Nations , of the  world  have  never  been  a  conquering  race ." - P  106


"At  the beginning  of  this  (20 Th)  Century , Schopenhauer, the  Great  German  philosopher, studying  from a  not  very  clear  translation  of  the  Vedas  made  from  an  old  translation  into  Persian  and  thence  by  a  young  French  into  Latin, says  :
"In the  whole  World  there  is  no  study  so  beneficial  and  so  elevating  as  that of  the  Upanishads ".P  109.
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From " Complete Works  of  Swami  Vivekananda " :  Vol 3