Three quarters of the wealth of the world has come out of India, and does even now. The commerce of India has been the turning point, the pivot, of the history of the world.
Whatever nation got it became powerful and civilized. The Greeks got it and became the mighty Greeks; the Romans got it and became the mighty Romans. Even in the days of the Phoenicians it was so.
After the fall of Rome, the Genoese and the Venetians got it. And then the Arabs rose and created a wall between Venice and India; and in the struggle to find a new way there, America was discovered.
That is how America was discovered; and the original people of America were called Indians, or "Injuns", for that reason.
Even the Dutch got it--and the barbarians--and the English and they became the most powerful nation on earth. And the next nation that gets it will immediately be the most powerful.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Class Talk in London, May 7, 1896
Whatever nation got it became powerful and civilized. The Greeks got it and became the mighty Greeks; the Romans got it and became the mighty Romans. Even in the days of the Phoenicians it was so.
After the fall of Rome, the Genoese and the Venetians got it. And then the Arabs rose and created a wall between Venice and India; and in the struggle to find a new way there, America was discovered.
That is how America was discovered; and the original people of America were called Indians, or "Injuns", for that reason.
Even the Dutch got it--and the barbarians--and the English and they became the most powerful nation on earth. And the next nation that gets it will immediately be the most powerful.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Class Talk in London, May 7, 1896
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