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certainly right and acceptable but so far as their stern opposition is concerned, they were bold enough to assert their rational views against the Vedic ritualism. They have played their role in the history of religious development. S. Radhakrishnan passes following general remarks on this system. “Liberal efforts at improving existing institutions sanctioned by time and embodied in the habits of people will remain ineffectual if the indifference and superstition of centuries are not shaken up by an explosive force like the Cārvāka creed.... The Cārvāka philosophy is a fanatical effort made to rid the age of the weight of the past that was oppressing it. The removal of dogmatism which it helped to effect was necessary to make room for the great constructive efforts of speculation.” 1
1 Radhakrishnan S. : Indian Philosophy, Vol. I, pp. 283–284.
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