THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA
seems to be a confusion in this crowding of space with rich forms of life, a luxurious disorder of excess or a wanton lack of measure, clear balance and design. For the third power of the ancient Indian spirit was a strong intellectuality, at once austere and rich, robust and minute, powerful and delicate, massive in prin-ciple and curious in detail. Its chief impulse was that of order and arrange-ment, but an order founded upon a seeking for the inner law and truth of things and having in view always the possibility of conscientious practice. India has been pre-eminently the land of the Dharma and the Shastra. She searched for the inner truth and law of each human or cosmic activi-ty, its dharma ; that found, she labour-ed to cast into elaborate form and detail-ed law of arrangement its application in fact and rule of life, Her first period was luminous with the discovery of the Spirit ; her second completed discovery of the Dharma ; her thired elaborated into
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