122 ESSAYS IN NATIONAL IDEALISM.

Even science is not everything; it is as easy to fetter-
the imagination with the bare facts of science, taught as*
knowledge, and not as wisdom, as to fetter it in any other
way. Science is a poor thing without philosophy ; and
philosophy was a part of the old culture. The Buddhist
books speak of the " three worlds," the world of desire-
(kama loka\ the world of form (rupa loka), and the formless
(arupa loka); to Buddhists these profound ideas are quite
familiar. Of the idealism of the Upanishads, which
permeates all inclian life and thought, Professor Deussen
says that therein lie the roots of all religion and philosophy r
" We do not know what revelations and discoveries are in
store for the restlessly enquiring human spiiit; but one-
thing we may assert with confidence,—whatever new
and unwonted paths the philosophy of the future may
strike out, this principle will remain permanently un-
shaken." The idealism of the Upanishads—which is-
continually re-expressed in all Inclian, including Buddhist,,
literature— is in marvellous agreement with the philosophies-
of Parmenides and Plato, and of Kant and Schopenhauer,.
And all this is an inseparable part of Indian culture as it
was. The far-reaching character of these basic ideals of
Indian culture have expressed themselves in an infinite-
variety of ways ; but they are always there. Is not this
culture worth saving ? An English writer on Indian
administration * remarks on the absurdity of the idea that-
" teaching Indian schoolboys a smattering of modern
experimental science will be a revelation to a culture-
and a civilisation which constructed a theory of the-
Universe, based on what we call modern scientific principles,,
five thousand years ago. "

It will be said that all this lies beyond the simple;
* Havell, 'Nineteenth Century,' -June, 1907.