THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA
tual point of view is much more, it is means of developing in our action and still more essentially in the character of ourbeing the diviner self in us, a step of our growing into the nature of the Godhead So with all our aims and activies spirituality takes them all and gives the a greater, fliviner, more intimate sor. Philosophy is in the western way of deal-ing with it a dispassionate enquiry by the light of the reason into the first truths of existence, which wc shall get at either by observing the facts science places at ourdisposal or by a careful dialectical scrutiny of the concepts of the reason or a mixture of the two methods. But from the spiritual view-point truth of existence is to be found by intuition and inner experience and not only by the reason and by scientific observation ; the work of philosophy is to arrange the data given by the various means of knowledge, excluding none, and put them into their synthetic relation to the one truth, the one supreme and universal
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