The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s6.6

c14.s6.6

It is necessary to cry halt to this sort of ultra-religious or metaphysical approach as has been done by the present author in *Love in Hindu Literature* (Tokyo 1916). A sober interpretation of the facts of Hindu literature is a desideratum. Even where the setting or scaffolding is religious or mythological and the *dramatis personae* divine or semi-divine one need not be tempted to mean by the texts "more than what meets the ear."