The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c3.69

c3.69

1. The progress of the nineteenth century and the sixteen years of the twentieth in discoveries and inventions is a unique phenomenon in the history of six millenniums. But Eur-America, which is mainly responsible for this, and Asia, which has contributed almost nothing to it, had been equally "primitive" or pre-"scientific" and pre-"industrial" down to nearly the end of the eighteenth century, if judged by the standard of to-day. Neither politically nor culturally was there East or West till then. It is the subordination of the East to the West in recent times both in politics and culture that has inspired the bombastic jingo fallacy: "East is East, and West is West." The jingo need remember that the history of the Middle Ages was really the history of the Expansion of Asia towards Southern and Eastern Europe. The "superior races" of those times (c. A.C. 600-1600) were the Islamites and Buddhist-Hindu Tartars of Asia.