The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s16.t6.5

c7.s16.t6.5

Altogether, the Bengali people is expanding although it is undergoing a radical change in class character and racial make-up.⁵⁷ The transformations that have been going on in Eur-America today on account of the pressure of the Slavs upon the other races should appear to belong almost to the same category as those in India. As for the "quality" of hybrids or their capacity for carrying forward the torch of civilization, eugencis is still discreetly silent or indefinite in its conclusion unless the exponent happens to have a conservative reform scheme on the anvil. But positive history announces that, notwithstanding the doctrine of Lapouge in *Les Sélections Sociales*, races may come and races may go but that civilization goes on for ever.