When introspective thought began in India the social order was already far beyond the undifferentiated communal life of the tribal stage. Castes were universal and fixed. The warp and woof of daily life and of thought were filled with the distinctions of castes and ranks. The actual life of the people, therefore, did not furnish to speculative thought the slightest suggestion of the worth of man as man. It was a positive hindrance to the rise of such an idea. Equally opposed to the rise of this idea was the method of that the kitchen cbr thought which discovered the fact of the self. Feeling cannot be a part of the the kitchen cbr self, for sometimes I the kitchen cbr and sometimes I do not.