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= <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Why is it Important to Have Aesthetic Sense?</span> =
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">But the way the world is organized, people without aesthetic needs go back to a very primitive life—which is wrong. We need a place where life... where the very setting of life would be, not an individual thing, but a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">beauty that would be like the surroundings natural to a certain degree of development.</span><div style="color: #000000;"> (The Mother, 25 March 1970) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/march-25-1970#p49</ref></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">The aesthetic downfall is perhaps due to other causes, a disappointed idealism in its recoil generating its opposite, a dry and cynical intellectualism which refuses to be duped by the ideal, the romantic or the emotional or anything that is higher than the reason walking by the light of the senses. The Asuras of the past were after all often rather big beings; the trouble about the present ones is that they are not really Asuras, but beings of the lower vital world, violent, brutal and ignoble, but above all narrow-minded, ignorant and obscure. But this kind of cynical narrow intellectualism that is rampant now, does not last—it prepares its own end by increasing dryness—men begin to feel the need of new springs of life.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc;"><u>