The Discovery Of India - pg. 43

The Rig Veda, the first of the Vedas, is probably the earliest book that humanity possesses. In it we can find the first outpourings of the human mind, the glow of poetry, the rapture at nature's loveliness and mystery. And in these early hymns there are, as Dr. Manicol says, the beginnings of "the brave adventures, made so long ago annd recorded here, of those who seek to discover the significance of our world and of man's life within it... India here set out on a quest which she has never ceased to follow."