tux May number of the Nineteenth Century contains an' address by' Professor Max. Muller "On the 'Enormous Autignity' of the East." It' is the Inaugural Address delivered before the Royal Asiatic Society in' Match last, and the Professor, while expressing' his unwillingness to do'anything to the golden cloud of' mystery' which surrounds the sanctuary of the primeval wisdom of the East, points oat that the distinguishing feature of modera ori research, is the-endeavour to brig' East closer to the West, and to' show that' there is no goat dividing' line between them; that the Easterns are "people exactly like ourselves in their and in their weakness, in' thei ideals and their failures, in_ the To become oriental scholars we must realise that we are the same people as these mysterious Kasten.
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