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Review ~ 57 ~ subservient to the system of production, and had ideas taken shape in accordance with it, a communist state like Russia ought, strictly speaking, to have curbed the tendencies to oppress and exploit. Thus the whole argument of the modern age is nothing short of sophistry in the garb of scientific reasoning—a patchwork, a hotchpotch of discordant elements. Of course, the ‘Scientific Method’ has been adopted to study these ‘facts’, but this, by itself, cannot arrive at the correct results. Other essential factors must be taken into account. That is to say, that, if the scientific method is applied, but applied only to half-truths and onesided data, in spite of its ostensible bona fides from the intellectual standpoint, it is bound to yield results which are far from being accurate. Here is an apt illustration of this point. In the first week of January 1964, an International Congress of Orientalists held in New Delhi, was attended by 1200 participants. On this occasion, one of the Orientalists read a paper in which it was claimed that several of the Muslim monuments of India had actually been built by the Hindu Rajas and not by the Muslim rulers. The paper claimed that the Qutb