On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet c3.8

c3.8

I regret that I have not been able to find in the two, somewhat excitedly written, articles any facts or suggestions, likely to benefit serious students of Indian antiquities. While repeating the ingenious, but extravagant, theories of the earlier paper, they teem in addition with statements which, though put forward with the author’s characteristic apodictiveness and self-confidence, fill the Sanskritists rather with astonishment than with respectful admiration, and which fully justify their continued unwillingness to take his opinions on Indian matters into serious consideration. There is hardly a single subject of Indian research, on which they do not contain assertions, conflicting with perfectly well known and undisputed facts.