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Indian painting, sculpture and architecture

did not refuse service to the aesthetic

satisfaction and interpretation of the social,

civic and individual life of the human being;

these things, as all evidences show, played a

great part in their motives of creation, but still

their highest work was reserved for the

greatest spiritual side of the culture, and

throughout we see them seized and suffused

with the brooding stress of the Indian mind on

the soul, the Godhead, the spiritual, the

Infinite.

(CWSA, 20: 227-228)