The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s12.3

c7.s12.3

Historians as a rule have a peculiar weakness for large states or the expansion of states. Sociologically, however, a large state or an enlarged state is not necessarily something to enthuse over. In the present author's way of envisaging human history or world-culture disruptions such as imply the multiplicity or prevalence of small states are not matters of shame to mankind. In the history of *Geopolitik* and international relations, objectively considered, the forces that work for concentration or expansion are no more permanent or abiding than are the forces that work for decentralization or dismemberment. Every realistic student of world-history and human civilization should rather be used to treat the nuclei of small and warring groups as the normal phenomena in political morphology or socio-cultural *Gestalt*.³⁹