The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c15.s1.40

c15.s1.40

We can easily admit that the Hindu discoveries down, say, to the fourteenth or sixteenth century A.C. "cannot even remotely compete with those of the Western world for the last four centuries." But we have to admit at the same time the other position, namely, that European discoveries down to the same period "cannot even remotely compete" with the European discoveries for the last four centuries. Under these conditions of comparative scientific development the problem of sensatism *vs.* ideationalism in Hindu culture, or for that matter, in European culture as well acquires an altogether new orientation¹⁴ such as does not appear to have been hinted at or adequately taken cognisance of in Sorokin's synthesis.