The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c8.6

c8.6

But in the meantime it may not be entirely out of the question for the students of social science to attempt reading some meaning into the diverse art-forms—architectural, sculptural, etc.,—such as have been unearthed in plenty. The language of art,—the "geometry" of forms,—is universal. The "stocks and stones" also can be eloquent especially because they have their cognates and agnates. Some of the "stocks and stones" to which the "Hindus" of modern India are used,—no matter how diverse their cranial types and howsoever removed from the Indus Valley they may happen to be,—are the family likenesses of just those antique specimens which have rendered the creations of Vedic *Risis* but the phenomena of yesterday. A psychological affinity between those Indians of 3500 B.C. and the Indians of today as registered in the *élan vital* or creative urge behind many of the art-forms may be considered to be fairly plausible. This is one side of the story.