Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.198

c12.198

There is a new spirit abroad in the land, but we must not shut our eyes to the fact that, if the East is awakening to the errors of her own civilisation, it has also become more fully alive to the deficiencies of ours. It is a spirit of searching inquiry and comparison, and even the India we have educated has not now that implicit faith in the superiority of Western teachers which it had half a century ago. And if we, instead of meeting this new spirit with an earnest desire to learn as well as to teach, wrap ourselves up in the pride of power and place, the gulf which separates East and West—a gulf which our own ignorance helps to dig—will inevitably grow wider and deeper.