Riks

I ever cherish the day when my good and strong-willed Professor Dr. Wilson practically carried me away to his Physical Science class and facilitated my realizing nearly a quarter of a century later the identity of Vedic and Puranic stories with geological and chemical phenomena. A full and accurate exposition of the Vedas and the Brahmanical literature based on the Vedas will demand the aid of a plastic intellect, scientific imagination, expert knowledge, practical and theoretical, of Geology, Mining, Organic Chemistry, Agriculture, and Astronomy as well as close familiarity with high mountains and petroliferous regions.

Above all, the student of the Veda should possess supreme capacity for putting himself in the place of our old-world forefathers. I have but exposed the main lodes and reefs by superficial trenching, and now I commence putting my ideas into shape for publication to ensure against the great mine of ancient knowledge remaining forever at the bottom of the sea of oblivion.