Jean Herbert (1897- ) famous Indianist, author of several books including Ganesha, précédé d'une étude sur Dieu chez les Hindous, Spiritualité hindoue, An Introduction To Asia and Vedantisme et vie pratique et autre études.
He reminds us that:
"Many many centuries before us, India had devised most of the philosophical systems which Europe experienced with later."
"They contained, at least in its essence, the philosophy of the Greeks, the Alexandrine mystique, the religious speculation of the Middle Ages, the rationalism, of the XIXth century and even the most recent incarnations of modern pantheism."
(source: Arise O' India - By Francois Gautier Har-Anand publications. p. 25)

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