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Friedrich Muller wrote Memories in 1902. George Upton said in his translators preface "The story speaks for itself. Without plot, incidents or situations, it is nevertheless dramatically constructed, unflagging in interest, abounding in beauty, grace and pathos, and filled with the tenderest feeling of sympathy, which will go straight to the heart of every lover of the ideal in the world of humanity, and every worshipper in the world of nature. Its brief essays upon theology, literature and social habits, contained in the dialogues between the hero and the heroine, will commend themselves to the thoughtful reader by their clearness and beauty of statement, as well as by their freedom from prejudice." Max Muller was a German philologist and Orientalist. He was one of the founders of the western academic field of Indian studies and the discipline of comparative religion.