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CHAPTER VIII THE ĀRYAN WAY
The material environment conditions the basic way of a people which, in turn, projects the form of their economic,
Material social and political institutions. We have Conditioning discussed the economic, social and political institutions of the Aryans from their earliest stage of savagery to the latest stage of barbarism. We find a remarkable continuity in these historic institutions in time and space. We have now to know the basic way from which these institutions originated.
The Aryans upto the last stage of their barbaric civilization and culture had not developed the idea of religion and Supreme God. There was no necessity for such invention. Their Basic Way may, at the best, may be called the primeval beliefs of the Aryans which gave material shape to their institutions,
The basic object most intimately related to the foundation of the life of the most ancient Aryan people was Importance cattle. Aryans reared them in herds. The
of Cattle most ancient Āryan civilization was shepherdic civilization. The effects of the fourth Glacier Age was still a living memory with them. Nature had become very unkind to them and they had to struggle very hard for their very existence in their original home. The principal phenomena of external visible nature shaped the basic way of Aryan life.
The principal activites of nature that effected the Aryan way were the Heaven, the Sun, the Dawn, the Fire,
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