The Spirit of Ancient Hindu Culture

In its pursuit of the Whole the former often loses sight of the parts; in the pursuit of the parts the hatter often loses sight of the Whole. [...] The one appeals from the evidence of senses to that of soul; the other appeals from the evidence of the soul to the evidence of the senses. [...] Under the old conditions of personal rule the itellect the character and the soul of the ruling' monarch were the factors 'upon which the good of the people32 ANCIENT HINDU CULTURE depended. [...] In the fields of religion and philsophy too the distance between the soul of the East and the soul of the West is apparently very great. [...] The one begins with the world with the ordinary starting-point of the pluralist the Many ; the other begins with the soul with the ordinary startinpoint of the absolutist the One.60 ANCIENT HINDU CULTURE The history of philosophy has made it abundantly clear that there is no logical passage from the one to the other; if we start with the Many it is not easy thing to evolve a real Unity whi