Aryan World-View

Aryan World-View

Some studies I have been working on in earlier times have had a lasting influence on the direction of my thoughts. On the following pages I have tried to make my efforts fertile, in the hope to encourage others to take up similar studies and to give them some helpful advice along their journey. The layman is the expert of laymanism, as it were, and so he may succeed in ways that are unpermitted to the professional. As soon as the provisional stimulation and explanation has taken place, the neophyte has to entrust himself to the guidance of competent scholars. At the end of this book a short list of literature will provide the necessary grip for further studying. The title â€žAryan World-viewâ€œ isn't entirely free of objection. â€žIndo-Aryanâ€œ would have been more precise, or even â€žancient Aryanâ€œ, if need be. But the composer fears to discourage just the reader he wishes to interest, by using a learned-sounding word. Let be said right here that in this little book â€žAryanâ€œ is not meant in the much debated and anyway difficult to limit sense of a problematic primeval race, but in the sensu proprio, meaning, to characterize the people that descended, several millennia ago, from the Central Asian plateau into the valleys of the Indus and the Ganges and who remained pure by obeying strict caste laws for a long period to keep themselves from mingling with strange races. These people called themselves the Aryan, that is to say the noblemen or the lords. Vienna, January 1905 Houston Stewart Chamberlain.
Country USA
Author Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Binding Kindle Edition
Format Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages 53
PublicationDate 2012-08-29
ReleaseDate 2012-08-29

Country	USA
Author	Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages	53
PublicationDate	2012-08-29
ReleaseDate	2012-08-29

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