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"Numerous are the volumes preserved in Hindu convents, in which are recorded the proofs of their learning. To attempt to say whether these Gymnosophists were the real founders of magic in India, or whether they only practiced what had passed to them as an inheritance from the earliest Rishis - the seven primeval sages - [...]

"It is admitted on all hands that from time immemorial the distant East was the land of knowledge. Not even in Egypt were botany and mineralogy so extensively studied as by the savants of archaic Middle Asia.   Sprengel, unjust and prejudiced as he shows himself in everything else, confesses this much in his Histoire [...]

"Even the great Magendie, the wise physiologist, was not above discovering that which had already been discovered and found good by the oldest physicians.   He proposed a remedy against consumption, namely, the use of prussic acid, may be found in the works of Linnaeus, Amenitates Academicae, vol. iv., in which he shows distilled laurel [...]

"In an old book entitled Demonologia, the author cites many instances of important remedies which being neglected at first afterward rose into notice through mere accident. He also shows that most of the new discoveries in medicine have turned out to be more than "the revival and readoption of very ancient practices."   During the [...]