A History of Hindu Chemistry, vol. 2

matter, the genesis of atoms and their sub-atomic constituents, and the chain of mechanical causation in the system of nature. I have also touched upon the Hindu theories of light, heat, and sound as implying current or wave motion, leaving the elaborate exposition to my paper on Hindu Mechanics and Physics. In the Appendix, I have added a brief account of the Scientific Method of the Hindus. This shows that all these ideas were not merely a mass of unverified and unverifiable speculation (which is the direct opposite of science)—a charge usually brought against Hindu thought and culture—but were the outcome of a scientific methodology. This methodology, in its formulation of the rules for the two fundamental inductive methods, is more comprehensive as well as more original and suggestive than that of John Stuart Mill John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), an influential British philosopher and proponent of inductive logic.. Furthermore, regarding its applied logic of the sciences (for example, the logic of therapeutics, grammar, etc.), it stands as a testament to the systematic completeness and rigor of the Hindu scientific mind. The difficulties of my task have been formidable, but I have not written one line that is not supported by the clearest and most authoritative texts. The ground covered is, for the most part, entirely new. I have gone back to the origines original: "origins" and studied the authorities at first hand, being resolved to avoid all second-hand sources of information. Fortunately, the Sanskrit philosophico-scientific terminology,