The Vedic fathers of geology

Grotocicat Researcuzs or Tae West. 91

= Be that as it may, it seems, beyond any manner Of doubt, that our Vedic Fore-fathers had taken very deep interest in the studies of Geology, and made, as faras lay in their power, careful researches in the science. Nay, they were Evolutionists par excellence, and I may say this without fear of contradiction. For, our voluminous Vedic Literature has conclusively proved this, and even European scholars' of repute have admitted the fact.

Proceeding further, and going back to the earliest times of which we possess any record, we find yery startling discoveries made by the Rishis of the Rig-Veda period (wide ante p.p. 13 @ 22) Tsay startling, because the time that has elapsed since then, though not actually incalculable, is simply immense, and the Rishis had even then

1 For, Sir Monier Williams says: —“...... A system which is in some respects almost identical with that thought out by Spinoza and the profoundest thinkers of modern Europe. Indeed, if you will pardon the anachronism,the Hindus were Spinozites more than two thousand years before the existence of Spinoza, and Darwinians many centuries before Darwin, and Eyvolutionists many centuries before the doctrines of Evolution had been accepted by the Huxleys of our time, and before any word like Evolution existed in any language of the world.” (The Religion of the Hindus. The Indian Magazine and Review. No 249. September 1891 )