THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA
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at once meet and 'Tti^fv t’u* old ‘n^n / 'it 'ind ti nc.v, t! . tr. jJitional ami t’lt c r cal iviind. Thi.' in its'df invol ,'cs r> u-“ ^ reUiru, but conscioasly or uncon 3ci')u»ly hastens a restatem«*nt. And the riper form of the return has taken as its principle a synthetical restatement; it lin« sought to arrive at the spirit of the ancient cul- ture and, while respecting its forms and often preservinst them to revivity, has yet not hesitated also Ut remould, to reject the outworn and to admit whatever new motive seemed assimilable to the old spirituality ur apt to widen the channel of its larger evolution. Of this freer deal- ing with past and present, this preser- vation by reconstruction Vivekananda was in his life-time the leading eremplar and the most powerful exponent.
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