God Arises
Review
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subservient to the system of production, and had
ideas taken shape in accordance with it, a
communist state like Russia ought, strictly
speaking, to have curbed the tendencies to oppress
and exploit. Thus the whole argument of the
modern age is nothing short of sophistry in the garb
of scientific reasoning—a patchwork, a hotchpotch
of discordant elements. Of course, the ‘Scientific
Method’ has been adopted to study these ‘facts’, but
this, by itself, cannot arrive at the correct results.
Other essential factors must be taken into account.
That is to say, that, if the scientific method is
applied, but applied only to half-truths and one-
sided data, in spite of its ostensible bona fides from
the intellectual standpoint, it is bound to yield
results which are far from being accurate.
Here is an apt illustration of this point. In the first
week of January 1964, an International Congress of
Orientalists held in New Delhi, was attended by
1200 participants. On this occasion, one of the
Orientalists read a paper in which it was claimed
that several of the Muslim monuments of India had
actually been built by the Hindu Rajas and not by
the Muslim rulers. The paper claimed that the Qutb
