THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA
issue. Thus we are sometimes asked what on earth we mean by spirituality in art and poetry or in political and social life a confession of ignorance strang enough in any Indian mouth at this stage of our national history,— or ho v art an! will be any the better when they have into them wh 1 1 1 have recently cribcJ as the ‘‘twang of spirituality.*’ n. how the practical problems either oi so- ciety or of politics are going at all to profit by this element. We have here re- ally an echo of the European idea, now of sufficiently long standing, that religion and spirituality on the one side and in- tellectual activity and practical life on the other are two entirely different things and have each to be pursued, on its own entire- ly separate lines and in obedience to its own entirely separate principles. Again we may be met also by the suspicion that in holding up this ideal rale before India we are pointing her to the metaphysical
and away from the dynamic and pragma-
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