[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902) › v1.c17.29 # A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c17.29 A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c17.29 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c17.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c17.29) The arts being thus relegated to the low castes and the professions made hereditary, a certain degree of fineness, delicacy and deftness in manipulation was no doubt secured but this was done at a terrible cost. The intellectual portion of the community being thus withdrawn from active participation in the arts, the \*how\* and \*why\* of phenomena—the coördination of cause and effect—were lost sight of—the spirit of enquiry gradually died out among a nation naturally prone to speculation and metaphysical subtleties and India for once bade adieu to experimental and inductive sciences.¹ Her soil was rendered morally unfit for the birth of a Boyle, a Des Cartes or a Newton and her very name was - [Previous: v1.c17.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c17.28) - [Next: v1.c17.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c17.30) - [Up: v1.c17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c17) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c17.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c17.29) · Pramāṇa