THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA
never lost hold of the insight,—that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalaties. She was alive to the greatness of material laws and forces ; she had a keen eye for the importance of the physical sciences ; she knew how to organise the arts of ordinary life. But she saw that the physical does not get its full sense until it stands in right relation to the supra-physical ; she saw that the complexity of the universe could not be explained in the present terms of man or seen by his superficial sight, that there were other powers behind, other powers within man himself of which he is nor-mally unaware, that he is conscious only of a small part of himself, that the invisible always surrounds the visible, the suprasen-sible the sensible, even as infinity always surrounds the finite. She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is,—truths which
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