The Aryan Path February 1939

2 APPRECIATING THE BEAUTIFUL The extent and the nature of the influence of literature and the arts in engendering or enhancing the sense of appreciation of the beautiful has been discussed for long and debated at length. [...] In the debt which the layman owes to the creator of beauty is the incalculable extent of the latter's influence in arousing the creative faculty itself in the layman. [...] He is the Principal Assistant Secretary to the Ministry of Labour and to the discharge of his duties brings the power of the inspiration of literature. [...] He worships " Presences of Nature in the Sky and on the Earth " Visions of the Hills " and " Souls of Lonely Places " ; such a worship while bstowing on him the sense of the etenal in life does not give him even fleeting glimpses of his own Soul of which the Universe is the symbol and the reflection. [...] Tumult and peace the darkness and the light— Were all like workings of one mind the features Of the same face blossoms upon one tree Characters of the great Apocalypse The types and symbols of Eternity Of first and last and midst and without end.