Chapter 137383–385

in a bewildering multitude of comforts and trappings, we must needs do without Art and its methods; for to dispense with simplicity and freedom is to dispense with beauty. The luxury of our ancestors was rich and even gorgeous, but never encumbered.

384 – I cannot give to the barbarous comfort and encumbered ostentation of European life the name of civilisation. Men who are not free in their souls and nobly rhythmical in their appointments are not civilised.

385 – Art in modern times and under European influence has become an excrescence upon life or an unnecessary menial; it should have been its chief steward and indispensable arranger.

So long as the mind governs life with the presumptuous certitude that it knows, how can the reign of the Divine be established?

12 March 1970 DISEASE AND MEDICAL SCIENCE To be cured is good, but to avoid being ill is better.

386 – Disease is needlessly prolonged and ends in death of-tener than is inevitable, because the mind of the patient supports and dwells upon the disease of his body.

How absolutely true!