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The first people to take up the study of Sanskrit literature on a more extensive scale than any other in Europe were the Germans. Among the small company of scholars who patiently thumbed the old Indian books--vehicle of the world's noblest and loftiest thoughts as they are--during the previous century, they were pre-eminent. Max Müller, the most famous of all Orientalists, was a German.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 33