When one sees what subtlety and logical acumen these philosophers possessed, he is moved to wonder what might have been the outcome had their minds been as free as those of more liberal Hellas.
But unfortunately they were bound to argue within limits, and were as much handicapped in the race of thought as were they that had to conform to the teachings of Rome.

For though India had no church, it had an inquisitorial priestly caste, and the unbeliever was an outcast.

What is said of custom is true of faith: "Let one walk in the path of good men, the path in which his father walked, in which his grandfathers walked; walking in that path one does no wrong" (Manu iv.
178).

Real philosophy, unhampered by tradition, is found only among the heretics and in the sects of a later time.
The gods of old are accepted by the orthodox as a matter of course, although theoretically they are born of the All-god, who is without the need of ceremonial rites.

To the other castes the active and most terrible deity is represented as being the priest himself.