The University of Nalanda c10.214

c10.214

First and the most important is: we must not judge the thing from our criterion, from our modern standard of looking at things but from the criterion of the age to which the thing under question belongs. Secondly, we must clearly distinguish between the aims and the means employed to achieve them, and not confuse the latter with the former, because thus only shall we be able to apportion impartially credit and blame.