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46 pellmell conflicts and struggles, but presented in a serene r sober and well-adjusted system of harmony and synthesis—which gives 'the World, the Flesh, and the Devil' their due, which recognises the importance and dignity of the secular, the worldly, and the positive, and which establishes the transcendental, not to the exclusion of, but only above, as well as in and through, the civic, social and economic achievements."

It was when this synthetic ideal of the One in the Many, the Infinite in the Finite, and the Transcendental in the Positive, was uttering itself in literature, sculpture, mythology and philosophy that Hindusthan first became what may truly be called the school of Asia. Kâlidâsa as the embodiment of Hindu nationalism is thus the spirit of Asia. Nobody understands Asia who does not understand Kâlidâsa. He is the "God-gifted organ-voice" of the Orient.