Caste in India: The Facts and the System c8.s6.35

c8.s6.35

Thus was accentuated and completed the parallel movement among the Āryans themselves, which, though in different conditions, was inspired by several common ideas. In neither case was community of profession the bond of union, but we can readily understand how it might appear so, not only to us but, in the course of time, even to the Hindus. At this point and in the age of secondary formation, where evolution has obliterated old ideas and motive-forces, or dulled the consciousness of them, a deceptive analogy might easily have been drawn regarding the autonomous factor of grouping, which as a fact was only the last stage in its development, for it had proceeded from very different sources.