Aged 17, he had become interested in the field of comparative religion, something of which his staunchly Christian parents disapproved of - they even burned many of his books on the subject.
17歳の頃、彼は比較宗教学の分野に興味を持つが、忠実なキリスト教徒であった彼の両親に反対され、その主題に関する彼の本は焼かれてしまった。