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rognition of the great democratic an instrument for developing auto of this site of intellectuality,
nomy. But while the exclusory principles that have been ignored
sary parts of liberal education clauses of the Moderate Convenind the formation of a new scheme
but the immense edneative force of itor consultation with the popular tion's Constitution remain, this
Innsic, painting and sculpture has worn. Thin, it seems to us, in a drawing together 14 not pos
never been recognized. They have Igitimate sphere of activity for a wible, or, if it
been thought to be bye-paths of the were possible,
human mind, beautiful and intertrong and self-renpecting Moderate could not be sincere and effective. party. But if they stultify. then. Thome clauses are a sign and pledge
esting, but not necessary, therofore
intended for the few. of the Mehta-Morley alliance and elves by acepting in any way
Yet the
universul impulse to mesure designed to reduce them to ratify the policy of which Mr.
enjoy thu
beauty and attractiveness of sound, nullity or impotence, they will com- Gokhale's Poona speech was the
to look at and live among pictures mit suicide. Their empty proteste expression, the policy of rallying the mainst the defocts of the Bill will
colours, forms ought to have warned Moderates to the Government's be recognizod is meaningloss, for support and crushing the National
munkind of the superficialty and they will have deprived theinselves
ignorance of such a view of these ist.
eternal and important occupations of their only leverago for remedying
THE NATIONAL VALUE
of human mind. the defricts. The country has no
The impulse, room any longer for a party of mere
deniel proper training and selfOF ART.
purification, has spent itself on the Manguino expectancy and helpless dependence on the will of superior
trivial, gaudy, sensuous, cheap ur pwer. Moderatism at prosont is a
vulgar instead of helping man up
The value of art in the training m y of ill-defined aspirations, un
Ward by its powerful aid in the of intellectual faculty is also an grounded hopes and helpless me
evocation of what is best and highimportant part of its utility. We thods leading to perpetunl and re
est in intelloct 18 well as in charachave nicely indicated the double pated disappointinent, incrensing character of intellectual activity,
tet, etnotion and the aesthetic weaknes and deepening self-discon
enjoyment and regulation of life and divided between the imaginative tent. No party vowed to these un
manners. It is difficult to apprecrenivre and sympathetic or cominspiring methods and depressing
ciate the prehensive intellectual centres on
waste and detriment experiences can hope to survive at
involved in the low and debased the one side and the critical, anaa time when political life is becom
level of enjoyment to which the lytic and penetrative on the other. ing more and moro vivid and real.
artistic impulses aro condemned in The latter are best trained by The Moderates must give up their science, criticism and observation,
the majority of mankind. vague unpracticality and adopt a the former by art, poetry, music,
But beyond and above this indefinite minn, a distinct programme, literature and the sympathetic
tellectnal utility of Art, there is a Hective inethods.
study of man and his creations. higher use, the noblest of all, its We do not know whether the These make the mind quick to
service to the growth of spirituality Moderate loaders could ever bring grasp at a glance, subtle to dirtin.
in the race. European critics have themselves so far as to stand out for guish shades, deep to reject shallow
dwelt on the close connection of it rond measure of control ng distin- self-sufficiency. mobile. delicnte. the highest developments of art guished from # wider power of Mwift, intuitive. Art assists in this with religion, and it is undoubtedly criticisin. But there is no reason training by raising images in the true that in Greece, in Italy, in why they should not make up their mind which it has to understand
India, the greatest efflorescence of a mind to fight for a popular elec- not by analysis, but by self-identi- national Art has been sociaal torate based on education, exclusive fiention with other minds; it is a with the employment of the artistic of chur and religious distinc- powerful stimulator of sympathetic genius to illustrate or adorn the time frou election and An insight. Art is subtle and delicate, thoughts and funcios of the temples clective toujority, and refuse anil it makes the mind now in its and instruments of the national to be satisfied with lens. In that novements aubtle and delicate. It religion. This was not because Art C , the Nationalist party would
party would is
in Auggestive suggestive, and the intellect
and the intellect is necessarily asociated with the 1 porument a more advanced force habitunted to the approciation of outward forms of religion, but beHtanding out for a measure of effect- art is quick to cntch suggestions, cause it was in the religion that Ive control and a donaneratio elector mastering not only in the scientific men's spiritual napirations centre
te brused on literacy, in addition to mind doon, that which is powitive thempelves. Spirituality is a wider the Moderate domanda. If on the and on the surface, but that which thing than formal religion and it is other hand, the Moderates would leads to ever fresh widening and in the service of spirituality that ale tooept control as necemmary subtilining of knowledge and opens Art reaches its highest self-expres. factor of any political settlement, a door into the deeper secrets of in- sion. Spirituality in a single worl M arato and Nationalist would ner naiure where the positive expressive of three lines of human again come into line and stand on a instruments of science cannot take aspiration towards divine knowledge, common platform, the only distinc- the depth or menure. This supreme divine love and joy, divine strength, tion being that one party would ac intellectual value of Art has never and that will be the highest and cept the auttlement as a satisfac- been officiently recognised. Men most perfect Art which, while stistury solution for the present, while have made language, poetry, history, fying the physical requirements of the othor would regard it merely as philosophy agents for the training the besthetic sense, the laws of
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