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OCR Page 1 of 22"I think of India and the Hindus as a sort of putrefied
appendage dangling from the body of Europe and Asia, some-
thing unhealthy and in a state of ferment from which nothing
ever results." Raoul de Russy de Sales.
Expressed with a maximum of clarity and a minimum of
charity, it must be granted that there is truth in this con-
temptuous description, even though no one with an active in-
terest in Indian problems ean admit, or afford to accept, 20
hopeless a conclusion. All agree that there is a difficulty;
from a different angle of incidence, another and nore accu-
rately realistie conclusion may result.
Both Indian and English writers agree that the core of
the difficulties India now experiences are spirituel and
psychological in nature. Without denying the tremendous
influence economics and specifically economic problems exercise
wherever men are found in association, of themselves such
criteria have no directive power. All systems involve pro-
duction and distribution: the question of *why' and 'how' and
how much' motivates *economic man' everywhere, while the
particular solution of a given society takes on color and
shape from the chosen values which give impetus to social life
as a whole.
with the possible exception of China, the Indian sub-
continent possesses the longest continuous indigenous oultural
development we know. Indian religion, Indian philosophy,
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