The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.s6.60

c13.s6.60

"It is well known," says he, "that the popular mind leans towards the sensible world and has an aversion to the world of abstract thought which is only understood by highly educated people, of whom in every time and every place there are only few." He is therefore not surprised that among the Hindus "idols are erected only for uneducated low-class people of little understanding and that the Hindu never made an idol of any supernatural being, much less of God" (Vol. I. p. 122). In the sixteenth century (1598) Abul Fazl also took the same liberal view about Hindu images.