History of art . Lakshmi, bronze (xiv Century){Private Collection. ) 32 MEDIAEVAL ART condemned never to choose between the confused soHci-tations of the energies of the will and the energies ofthe senses. Man will change nothing of his final des-tiny, which is to return sooner or later to the uncon-scious and the formless. In the fury of the senses or. GwALiOR (xv Century). The Palace. the immobility of contemplation, he must thereforedescend unresistingly into the chaos of the elements. The withdrawal of the Indian soul from preoccupa-tion with morality, its pantheistic confusion and dis-ord
History of art . Lakshmi, bronze (xiv Century){Private Collection. ) 32 MEDIAEVAL ART condemned never to choose between the confused soHci-tations of the energies of the will and the energies ofthe senses. Man will change nothing of his final des-tiny, which is to return sooner or later to the uncon-scious and the formless. In the fury of the senses or. GwALiOR (xv Century). The Palace. the immobility of contemplation, he must thereforedescend unresistingly into the chaos of the elements. The withdrawal of the Indian soul from preoccupa-tion with morality, its pantheistic confusion and dis-order, cut it off almost constantly from the greatabstract constructions that characterize the aspirationof the ancient peoples of the Occident. In India, theeye does not seize things in their ensemble until it hastaken in all their details. In Egypt, the desert, thehorizon, and the straight line of the river, as in Greecethe winding bays, the transparent waters, and theclear-cut crests of the hills, had made of man a meta- INDIA 33 physician or a philosopher, loving the rhythm or thesinuous continuity that he observed in the universe;but here it required too many days to reach the moun-tains, the rivers were too vast and too muddy for oneto see to their depths, the forests were too dense to
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