History of art . Bhuwaneswar (vi Century). The great temple, a pillar. Yet the elements will not mingle all these lives with theconfusion of the earth more successfully than thesculptor has done. Sometimes, in India, one finds enor-mous mushrooms of stone in the depths of the forests,shining in the green shadow like poisonous one finds heavy elephants, quite alone, asmossy and as rough skinned as if alive; they minglewith the tangled vines, the grasses reach their bellies. INDIA 17 flowers and leaves cover them, and even when theirdebris shall have returned to the earth they w
History of art . Bhuwaneswar (vi Century). The great temple, a pillar. Yet the elements will not mingle all these lives with theconfusion of the earth more successfully than thesculptor has done. Sometimes, in India, one finds enor-mous mushrooms of stone in the depths of the forests,shining in the green shadow like poisonous one finds heavy elephants, quite alone, asmossy and as rough skinned as if alive; they minglewith the tangled vines, the grasses reach their bellies. INDIA 17 flowers and leaves cover them, and even when theirdebris shall have returned to the earth they will be nomore completely absorbed by the intoxication of theforest. The whole of Indian genius lies in this never-satisfiedneed for setting matter in motion, in this acceptance of. Amravati. Women in adoration. the elements offered by matter, in this indifference tothe fate of the forms that it has drawn from the art that reveals to us this genius, one mustnot look for the expression which the Egyptian gaveto his metaphysical system, an expression that wasimposed, perhaps, upon the sculptor, but was nonethe less real; we must not look for the free expressionof a social philosophy, as among the Greeks. Whatwe have here is the dark and troubled expression—anonymous and profound, but immeasurably strongfor that very reason—of the intuitive pantheism of theIndian. Man is no longer at the center of life. He
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