ABSTRACT
§ 1 . Indian writings.—The different races of mankind exhibit very similar lines of development in their culture. The first condition of which any record survives is usually one of large but indefinite ideas and predominant emotionalism. This may be called the religious age, to distinguish it from the succeeding philosophic age: but the distinction is not very great; it is a distinction of the time when religion is the philosophy of a race from the time when philosophy becomes its religion. The ages of culture in India may be classified as ages of religion and philosophy, or from a more literary point of view as the Vedic, Epic, and Philosophic.
