The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c10.s6.3

c10.s6.3

From Pythagoras to Socrates, from the Sophists to Seneca, from Jesus to Luther, from Calvin to Kant, and from Renouvier, Fichte, Carlyle and Mazzini to Dewey, Hobhouse, Masaryk and Moeller van den Bruck,—each one is occupied with *le problème moral* in its comprehensive sense as analysed by Huber. It is the drame de *l'Esprit*, the drama of the spirit, in which each one is interested. This is the drama which is "the more serious because it is the more subtle, which although less apparent in a material form affects nevertheless the entire human organism from within." The moralizings of Śākyasimha (B.C. 623-543) and of the Sākyan missionaries as lectures to the human spirit possess the same significance for political thought as those of their European contemporaries, Socrates, the Sophists and others down to Plato (B.C. 430-347) and his successors of ancient Europe.