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West's Attitude Towards  The East
 
   Rome was saves in A.D. 408  by three thousand pounds of pepper imported from India as  part of the ransom  the Senate paid to Alaric the Goth; ever since, when Europe found itself in an impasse or in a questing mood, it has turned yearning to the land of culinary and spiritual spices. The greatest influence during Dark Ages was Augustine, who influenced by Plotinius, who was influenced by Indian mysticism. Long before Aldous Huxley  found in Yoga a remedy for our Brave New World, Schopenhauer  called the Upanishads the consolation of his life; and the first generation of the Nuclear Age seems to have found a like solace in Zen. On the Whole, the west receptiveness to the voice of the East was limited to periods of spiritual emergency, to moods of  futility and despair; its attitude to Asia was either that of the conqueror  armed with his gun-and-gospel truth, or that of the pilgrim in zackcloth and ashes, anxious to prostrate  himself at the guru's feet. 
( Lous ad the robot- Arthur Koestler-p.11

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