The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c22.25

c22.25

Rheims Cathedral, the glory of the Middle Ages, is shattered by twentieth-century savages; but the genius of the Latin race survives and the traditions of Gothic art are still alive in India, the land of its birth. Only a new spiritual stimulus is needed to revive their old creative force, and the comradeship-in-arms of East and West on the battlefields of France will surely be followed again by a closer spiritual fellowship in the arts of peace. So the spirit of Gothic art may be reborn, and East and West may join once more in raising a great monument to the glory of God, in memory of the heroes who have fallen in the fight and of the martyrs who have suffered for the cause of freedom.