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The ancient East had great mystics and celebrated thinkers of whom she could well be proud. But a people cannot live on a great spiritual past forever. It has to make the present great too. This, as must sadly be noted, it has failed to do.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 2 : India Part 1 > # 171