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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 62

Documents
George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
1869 (13 January) folio mourning A.L.S. to the German-born classical scholar and orientalist Max Müller in Maidenhead:, I find I have no time now to do anything but my office work & so I have been obliged to give up enlarging my allusion to Degradation & the Vedas ... There is much evidence as regards the Religion of Hindoostan – degradation in a definite sense – lower conceptions of the Divine Nature – lower conceptions of acceptable worship – lower social Institutions as connected with Religion. Is not this certainly true & does it not coincide with your view of the law of decay in all Religions? ...". Signed at foot "Argyll". On paper with embossed vignette "India Office" part of an autograph envelope is mounted the reverse of the second leaf; slight tears to folds. Photo

George John Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, KG, KT, PC, FRS, FRSE (1823 – 1900), styled Marquess of Lorne until 1847, was a Scottish peer and Liberal politician as well as a writer on science, religion, and the politics of the 19th century. In William Gladstone's first government of 1868 to 1874, Argyll became Secretary of State for India.

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