THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA
vatism, more academic and sentimental than profound in its impulse or in touch with the great facts and forces of life. We have now in emergence an increasing sense of the necessity of a renovation of social ideas; and expressive forms by the spirit of the nation awaking to the deeper yet unexpressed implications of it- culture, but as yet no sufficient will or means of execution. It is probable that only with the beginning of a freer national life will the powers of the renaissance take effective hold of the social mind and action of the awakened people.
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