The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c15.s1.4

c15.s1.4

'An observation in Sorokin's *Social and Cultural Dynamics*,² just published, deserves some comment in this connection. Referring to materialism in Hindu thought he observes as follows: "Almost all the Indian and European investigators of the problem (like M. Müller, L. de la Vallée Poussin, R. Garbe, Rhys Davids and many others) unanimously stress that the materialistic thought never gained any important place in the literature of India, except in the legendary, pre-Aryan period, before 2000 to 4000 B. C. of which nothing is known and which did not have as yet the Vedic culture, nor crystallized into a real school of thought, nor if it existed as such had any great influence."