The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c15.s1.17

c15.s1.17

Both the Eur-American and Indian indologists or orientalists require to get used to the "whole view" of man, the principles of human personality and characterology as well as societal origins and development. It is necessary for both these classes of scholars to get "depolarized" from their personal or professional tastes, ideals, horrors and prejudices. They have but to open their eyes and see the manifold manifestations of life, although they may care to single out just a few for their own investigations. As soon as these orientalists as well as their followers in the philosophical and sociological fields have mastered the elementary fact that the foundations of life are by nature and history no less positivistic than transcendental or no less idealistic than materialistic it will be impossible for them or, for that matter, any set of intellectuals anywhere on earth not to believe that materialism, positivism, "sensatism," or any other ism of this sort has been fundamental in India's creations in personalities, institutions, ideologies and movements.