THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA
western spirit and type of their education.From mediaegal India they drew away inrevolt and ineline to disereditans and destroy whatever it had ereate I ; if they took anything from it, it was a- poetic synitola to which they give a super andmodern signification. To ancieit India they looked back on the contrary with a sentiment of pride, at least in certain directions, and were willing to take from it whatever material they could subdue to their new standpoint, but they could not quite grasp anything of it in its original sense and spirit an I strove to rid it of all that would not square with their westernised intellectuality. They sought for a bare, simplified and rationalised religion, created a literature which im- ported very eagerly the forms, ideas and whole spirit of their English models,— the value of the other arts was almost entirely ignored,—put their political faith and hope in a wholesale assimilation or rather an exact imitation of the
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