Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.10

c20.10

They have been always ready to receive the roots and seeds of Europe, that suited their climate, and have adopted several which they found to answer their purpose into their regular course of cultivation. All over the world men are attached to their early habits and ancient customs. The History of our own artists and manufacturers would afford many strong instances of this. Although men of superior education and intelligence, it has often been very difficult to make them alter their established methods after science and philosophy had detected their errors.