Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c23.2

c23.2

1\. Like the Greeks, as Whewell admits, the Hindus also "felt the importunate curiosity with regard to the definite application of the idea of cause and effect to visible phenomena," "drew a strong line between a fabulous legend and a reason rendered," and "attempted to ascend to a natural cause by classing together phenomena of the same kind." (This scientific attitude of mind Whewell does not find in any non-Greek except the Hindu! He forgets altogether the claims of the Chinese.)