Indian Philosophy v1.c8.s7.22

v1.c8.s7.22

¹ Referring to the hardening of classes into castes, Rhys Davids writes : " It is most probable that this momentous step followed upon and was chiefly due to the previous establishment of a similar hard and fast line preventing any one belonging to the non-Aryan tribes from inter-marrying with an Aryan family or being incorporated into the Aryan race. It was the hereditary disability the Aryans had succeeded in imposing upon races they despised, which, reacting within their own circle and strengthened by the very intolerance that gave it birth, has borne such bitter fruit through so many centuries" (Hibbert Lectures, p. 23).