The discoveries in
Sanscrit philology made in the latter half of the eighteenth
century and the first half of the nineteenth, by Sir William Jones,
Carey, Wilkins, Foster, Colebrooke, and others, had met at first
with some opposition from theologians. The declaration by Dugald
Stewart that the discovery of Sanscrit was fraudulent, and its
vocabulary and grammar patched together out of Greek and Latin,
showed the feeling of the older race of biblical students. But
researches went on. Bopp, Burnouf, Lassen, Weber, Whitney, Max
Muller, and others continued the work during the nineteenth century
more and more evident became the sources from which many ideas and
narratives in our own sacred books had been developed. Studies in
the sacred books of Brahmanism, and in the institutions of
Buddhism, the most widespread of all religions, its devotees
outnumbering those of all branches of the Christian Church
together, proved especially fruitful in facts relating to general
sacred literature and early European religious ideas.
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