Hindu Medicine c8.198

c8.198

Still, the archaic mind is no stagnant pool, though it may lie unruffled by any movement of thought similar to that which originated in Greece. The very restlessness and curiosity which stimulate the primitive mind, urging it on to elementary empiricism and valuable discoveries concerning the healing forces of nature, does not content itself with isolated findings. It endeavors to understand them by comparing their features and qualities; through a speculative process it weaves them together into a system that is logically consistent in itself and satisfies reason by means of analogies and generalizations.