THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA
But this too could not be the end , of it-self it ’eads towards a principle of new creation. Otherwise the upshot of the louble current of thought and tendency might be an incongruous assimilation. Something in the mental sphere like the strangely assorted half European, half
Indian dress which we now put upon bur bodies. India has to get back entirely to the native power of her spirit at its very deepest and to turn all the needed strengths and aims of her present and future life into materials for that spirit to work upon and integrate and har- monise. Of such vital and original creation we may cite the new Indian art as a striking example. The beginning of this process of original creation in every sphere of her national activity will be the sign of the integral self-finding of her renaissance.
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