The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c6.s2.21

c6.s2.21

What is urged here is that it is unfair to compare the East in its worst and most degraded condition with the West in its best and most prosperous stage, and that it is a vicious practice to try to understand Asia such as she was as the leader of humanity’s progress from the servile and degenerate Asia of today, the Asia that is facing annihilation. Justice and science require that Asia and Europe should be tried in the balance “under the same conditions of temperature and pressure”, i. e., under conditions of absolute freedom and mutual respect.