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১৯৪ সবুজ পত্র আষাঢ়, ১৩২ to be human. On the other hand, the mind of the people had become intensely humanised by the influ- ence of Buddhism, whose great teaching of infinite compassion for all sentiment creatures bad sunk deep into the soul of the nation. The simple doctrine of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, which the Mohamme- dans introduced into India, appears to have stirred the soul of the people to its depths, for we find that in the fourteenth century, in almost every part of India, religious reformers rose in protest against the empty formalism and the dry intellectualism of Brah- minic orthodoxy. In this age. Vaishnavism, the oldest monotheistic creed of India, was revived throughout the length and breadth of the country. Neo-Vaishnavism, with its doctrines of a personal God, incarnation, divine grace, and salvation by faith, bears a close and striking resemblance to Christianity. As a romantic spiritual movement which set a new and supreme value on human emotions, it caused a simultaneous deepening and heightening of the emo- tional nature of our people. And the poets of this age poured out their emotions, social and religious, in language which is as simple as it is fervent. III. With the British conquest of India, there opens a new chapter of our psychology. In English litera-