The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c5.s3.1

c5.s3.1

At the moment of writing the second edition (1936) it is possible to note that the cry for positivism in the approach to the problems of Hindu culture as well as the futuristic demand for reform in the methodology of social sciences, as raised during 1910-14, have to a certain extent justified themselves. Not only indologists and other Orientalists but students of anthropology, psychology, economics, politics and sociology have embarked upon a transvaluation of values according to an humaner, albeit more rational method. Perhaps the scientific world is gradually approaching the condition that was looked for in my *Chinese Religion Through Hindu Eyes* (Shanghai 1916 p. xv.), where it was claimed that the twentieth century demands a new synthesis, a fresh transvaluation of values, and as prolegomena to that, a new logic,—in order that the *idola* of the nineteenth century might be subverted.