ABSTRACT

WE have seen before that it was in the Rationalistic Age that all thereligious rules and laws of the previous ages received a philosophical treatment, and were condensed, arranged, add codified. It was in this period that the con tell ts of the verbose and somewhat chaotic Brahmanas were brought into order, that civil and criminal laws and the law of inheritance were codified, that the caste rules and social laws were rigidly fixed, and the duties of men, both as citizens and as members of a family, defined. And it can well be irr-ngined, therefore, that science and philosophy received a nigh degree of development in this age, and some departments of inquiry and thought received their last development in India in. "this period. .