Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c6.26

c6.26

The year 1815 may be conveniently taken to be the year I of this modernism, as with the fall of Napoleon it marks also the beginning of a new era in world-politics, practically the era in which we still live. The difference between the Hindu and the Eur-American, or between the East and the West, is a real difference to-day. But it is not a difference in mentality or "ideals" or so-called race-genius. It is a difference of one century, the "wonderful century," in a more comprehensive sense than Wallace gives to it.