Robert Briffault's (A french surgeon and writer) views about Europes Developement

Robert Briffault

Robert Stephen Briffault (1876 – 11 December 1948) was a french, trained as a surgeon, but found fame as a social anthropologist and in later life as a novelist.

He says:

"It is highly probable that but for the Arabs (Moslims), modern European civilization would have never assumed that character which has enabled it to transcend all previous phases of evolution. For although there is not a single aspect of human growth in which the decisive influence of Islamic culture is not traceable, nowhere is it so clear and momentous as in the genesis of that power which constitutes the paramount distinctive force of the modern world and the supreme course of its victory-natural sciences and the scientific spirit... What we call science arose in Europe as a result of a new spirit of inquiry; of new methods of investigation, of the method of experiment, observation, measurement, of the development of Mathematics in a form unknown to the Greeks. That spirit and those methods were introduced into the European world by the Arabs."[Robert Briffault, The Making of Humanity(1928)]

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