THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA
The second period of renection of the Indian mind upon the new elements, it- movement towards a recovery of the national poise, has helped us to direct these powers and tendencies into sound. and much more friutful lines of action. I'or the anglicising impulse was very. soon met by the old national spirit an began to be heavily suffused by its intin- ence. It is now a very small and always dwindling number of our present-day in- tellectuals who still remain obstinately westernised in their outlook ; and ever these have given up the attitude of blat ant and uncompromising depreciation of the past which was at one time a common poise. A larger number have proceeded by a constantly increasing suffu- sion of their modernism with much of ancient motive and sentiment, a better insight into the meaning of Indian things and their characteristics, a free acceptance more of their spirit than of their forms and an attempt at new interpretation. At
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