THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA
lity finds its heights end its depths and its constant and many-sided frution. In modern Europe it is after a long explo-sion of vital force and a stupendous acti-vity of the intellect that spirituality has begun really to emerge and with some pro- mise of being not, as it once was, the sorrowful physician of the malady of life, but the beginning of a large and profound clarity. The European eye is struck in Indian spiritual thought by the Bud-dhistic and illusionist denial of life. But it must be remembered that this is only one side of its philosophic tendency which as-sumed exaggerated proportions only in the period of decline. In itself too that was simply one result, in one direction, of a tendency of the Indian mind which Is common to all its activities, the impulse to follow each motive, each specialisation of motive even, spiritual, intellectual, ethical, vital, to its extreme point and to sound its utmost possibility. Part of its innate direction was to seek in each not
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