History of art . arouse the loftiestsentiment of superior natures. If, after much suffering,the Indian sages rise above good and evil to gain indif-ference, it is because the crowd, in India, had plungedinto the intoxication or the horror of life withoutknowing either good or evil. As balance, for them, could be realized only at briefmoments in the average life of society, they sought it 50 MEDIEVAL ART outside the conditions of that society, in the bosom ofan immeasurable harmony, where Hfe and death, whoseorigins and ends we do not know, mingle their equalpowers and know no other limits than
History of art . arouse the loftiestsentiment of superior natures. If, after much suffering,the Indian sages rise above good and evil to gain indif-ference, it is because the crowd, in India, had plungedinto the intoxication or the horror of life withoutknowing either good or evil. As balance, for them, could be realized only at briefmoments in the average life of society, they sought it 50 MEDIEVAL ART outside the conditions of that society, in the bosom ofan immeasurable harmony, where Hfe and death, whoseorigins and ends we do not know, mingle their equalpowers and know no other limits than life, then, exhaust itself with living until deathcomes! Let death, in its putrefaction, cause life toflower and reflower! Why should one try to infuse theenergies of nature into the harmony of consciousness?Disciplined for a moment, the energies of nature willtake the upper hand again, and once more will roll thewill and the hopes of man into the confused intoxica-tion of their regenerated
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