THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA
order, the desire of the mind to tread through life with a harmonised knowledge and in the right rhythm and measure. Thus an ingrained and dominant spiri-tuality, an inexhaustible vital creative-ness and gust of life and, mediating be-tween them, a powerful, penetrating and scrupulous intelligence combined of the ra- tional. ethical and aesthetic mind each at a high intensily of action, created the harmony of the ancient Indian cul-ture.
Indeed without this opulent vitality and opulent intellectualilty India could never have done so much as she did with her spiritual tendencies. It is a great error to suppose that spirituality flourish-es best in an impoverished soil with the life half-killed and the intellect discourag-ed and intimidated. The spirituality that so flourishes is something morbid, hectic and exposed to perilous reactions. It is when the race has lived most richly and thought most profoundly that spiritua-
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