Philologists have discovered that the languages of a quarter of a billion people in Asia and most of the inhabitants of Europe, North and South America and other regions of the earth colonized by Europeans are fundamentally alike. That is, Latin, German, Russian and Greek are at the bottom of same, having all descended from the same parent language. Professor Bender says; "Language is the best evidence of community, of life and culture, and we can at least assume that at some time and in some more or less definite territory there dwells a people, or group of peoples racially or racially mixed, who lived to a large extent, a common life, and who spoke a tongue which was the common ancestor of the languages now spoken by the majority of the civilized peoples of the earth.
"With the beginnings of the science of comparative philology early in the Nineteenth century came the knowledge that Sanskrit was the oldest of the Indo-European languages—if not the mother of them all, at least their elder sister. Philologists concluded that the home of the Hindus must also have been the home of the Indo-European peoples, and this common home they visualized on the banks of India's most sacred stream, the Ganges. 