The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c5.s4.15

c5.s4.15

According to Sorokin what is now termed "eugenics" was very extensively practised in ancient India as in Palestine and Greece. He quotes Manu, Āpastamba, Gautama, Nārada and Viṣṇu to show that the Hindus like the Jews of the *Old Testament* and the Greeks of the *Odyssey* and the *Iliad*, Plato and Aristotle attached considerable importance to "blood," "race", "selection," "heredity" (pp. 219-220, 358).