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PREFACE.

IX

especially in India—has served to confirm me more and more in the
correctness of the principles I then tried to establish.1 Unless, how-
ever, the matter is taken up seriously, and re-examined by those who,
from their position, have the ear of the public in these matters, no
such progress will be made as would justify the publication of a
second work on the same subject. I consequently see no chance
of my ever having an opportunity of taking up the subject again, so
as to be able to describe its objects in a mere consecutive or more
exhaustive manner than was done in the work just alluded to.

1 A distinguished German professor,
Hen- Kinkel of Zurich, in his 'Mosaik
zur Kunstgeschichte, Berlin, 1876,' has
lately adopted my views with regard to

the age of Stonehenge without any
reservation, though arriving at that
conclusion by a very different chain of
reasoning from that I was led to adopt.

Huddha preaching. (From a fresco painting at Ajmua.)
 
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