THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA
they become too in their aim a revelation of greater things concealed in man and Nature and of the deepest spiritual and universal beauty. Politics, society, eco-nomy are in the first form of human life simply an arrangement by which men collectively can live, produce, satisvy their desires, enjoy, progress in bodily vital and mental efficiency ; but the spi-ritual aim makes them much more than this, first, a framework of life within which man can seek for and grow intohis real self and divinity, secondly, an increasing embodiment of the divine law of being in life, thirdly, a collective ad-vance towards the light power, peace, unity, harmony of the diviner nature of humanity which the race is trying to evolve. This and nothing more but nothing less, this in all its potentialities, is what we mean by a spiritual culture and the applicaticxi of spirituality to life. Those who distrust this ideal or who cannot understand it, are still under the
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