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It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
West
Grammar
Hypnotism
Philosophy
Barriers
Himalayan
System
Sent
Decimal
True
Gifts
Decimals
Even
Chess
Numerals
Logic
Fables
India
Barrier
Across
Hinduism

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