nature and a riot of the vital forces, on the other there is in compensation a greater seeking for something beyond and a seeking with more light and knowledge in it.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume IV - Part 2
Fragment ID: 13752
The times now are both worse and better than in Wordsworth’s – on one side there is a collapse into the worst parts of human nature and a riot of the vital forces, on the other there is in compensation a greater seeking for something beyond and a seeking with more light and knowledge in it.