An ultra, one-sided idealism is the central tendency of the Hindoo mind.

The God of Brahmanism is an intelligence, absorbed in the rest of profound contemplation.

The good man of this religion is he who withdraws from an evil world into abstract thought.
Nothing else explains the Hindoo character as this does.

An eminently religious people, it is their one-sided spiritualism, their extreme idealism, which gives rise to all their incongruities.

They have no history and no authentic chronology, for history belongs to this world, and chronology belongs to time.