Clergyman's

We should never forget that Gautama was born and brought up a Hindu and lived and died a Hindu. His teaching, far-reaching and original as it was, and really subversive of the religion of the day, was Indian throughout. He was the greatest and wisest and best of the Hindus.
- Thomas Rhys Davids

‘was the only man of our own race, the only Aryan, who can rank as the founder of a great religion’ ‘the whole intellectual and religious development of which Buddhism is the final outcome was distinctively Aryan, and Buddhism is the one essentially Aryan faith’ , ‘took its rise among an advancing and conquering people full of pride in their colour and their race… ‘ .
- Thomas Rhys Davids