Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.184

c12.184

The rank materialism which is the basis of the modern Indian university system tends to produce in the Indian mind the same attitude towards art that is characteristic of the European university man. In this view, so contrary to all the laws of Nature, and all the experience of the human race, art is one of those luxuries which may be enjoyed when other intellectual, and all bodily, wants are satisfied; but, at the same time, it is to be taken as the most easily dispensed with of all intellectual stimulants, and as having no practical bearing on the intellectual growth or life of the average human being.