From this letter: "In those early days a new race was developing in central and western Asia and in eastern Europe. This is called the Aryan race. In Sanskrit there is the same word (Arya), meaning a gentleman or a high born person. As Sanskrit was one of the languages of the Aryan peoples, this means that they considered themselves very gentlemanly and high born! They were apparently quite as vain as people are now. You know that an Englishman thinks himself quite the first person on Earth, and a Frenchman is equally sure that the French are the greatest people, so also the German and the American and others."
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