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The process which has led up to the renaissance now inevitable, may be analysed, both historically and logic-ally, into three steps by which a transition is being managed, a complex breaking, reshaping and new building, with the final result yet distant in prospect,—though here and there the first bases may have been already laid, — a new age of an old culture transformed, not an affiliatioo of a newborn civilisation to one that is old and dead, but a true rebirth, a renasence. The first step was the recep-tion of tl. European contact, a radical reconsideration of many of the prominent elements and some revolutionary denial of the very principles of the old culture. The second was a reaction of the Indian spirit upon the European influence, sometimes with a total denial of what it oSered