The Music of Hindostan c8.6

c8.6

And it does not interest him to compare one nation with another, or to take a side in or strike a balance between competing activities. His life is in the family rather than the state, in idea rather than fact, in the soul rather than the mind. His knowledge is of revelation more than of science; his truth contemplative rather than practical. Compromise is for him not so much the *media via* which emerges from the battle of two forces, as the philosophic calm which without despair can hold in solution two diametrically opposed statements.