THE HARMONY OF VIRTUE

V. 8. Hindu Drama307enormous than the hard and earthy African peoples whom in Europehe only half moralised. If he seeks a Père Goriot or a MadameBovary, he will still fail in his quest; for though such types doubtlessexisted at all times among the mass of the people with the largestrain of African blood, Hindu Art would have shrunk from poisoningthe moral atmosphere of the soul by elaborate studies ofdepravity. The true spirit of criticism is to seek in a literaturewhat we can find in it of great or beautiful, not to demand fromit what it does not seek to give us.