THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA
conditions and ideals and the urgent necessity of understanding, assimilating and conquering them. The national mind turned a new eye on its past cul- ture, re-awoke to its sense and import, but also at the same time saw it in relation to modem knowledge and ideas. Out of this awakening vision and impulse the Indian renaissance is arising, and that must determine its future tendency. The recovery of the old spiritual knowledge and experience in all its splendour, depth and fullness is its first, most essential work ; the flowing of this spirituality into new forms of philosophy, literature, art, science and critical knowledge is the se- cond ; an original dealing with modern problems in the light of Indian spirit and the endeavour to formulate a greater synthesis of a spiritualised society is the third and most difficult. Its success on these three lines will be the measure of its help to the future of humanity. The Spirit is a higher infinite of
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