Note 12 — Chapter XI

Firstly, we have already adduced proofs to show how scrupulously careful Csoma’s critical mind was not to run into philological or any other speculations. He guards himself very distinctly against such when he says, “I was much perplexed by Dr. Gerard’s letter to me. In my answer I would not enter into the wide field of speculation.”12 Henry Torrens speaks of it,13 and Dr. Malan is very positive on the subject14 when he says, “Csoma did not scrutinise the intricacies of hypotheses; he had too much sense for that.”