The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s16.t5.3

c7.s16.t5.3

In these discussions as in all others bearing on social life there is generally no difficulty about agreeing as to the fact of "social metabolism" or transformation going on around us. But it is, as a rule, while appraising the value of the transformation that the diversity of schools arises, each with its own shibboleth based naturally on personal equations. One thinker is convinced in his own way that the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were more "creative" than the nineteenth and the twentieth; and another ignores the beneficial influence of social assurance and other modern legislation on the standard of living and welfare of the masses.