Sooner probably than anybody else he realized the far-reaching implications of the theory propounded by Planck.
With more eloquence than judgment, he propounded theses bringing into relief the points in which the new doctrines clashed with the old.
No speculation of hypothesis has been propounded to account satisfactorily for the origin of the Australian flora.
It is only in the institutes of Manu, where we find the system of castes propounded in its complete development, that Brahma has his definite place assigned to him in the cosmogony.
Its success greatly helped to break down the old prejudices, and to bring home to the minds of ordinary men the truth of the new ideas propounded by Galileo and Torricelli.