The Bengal Renaissance - pg. 212

We may conclude that Rammohun and Iswarchandra are
the two terminal thinkers of the first phase of the nineteenth
century reawakening of Bengal, the former initiating it and
in the latter it having reached its culmination. This phase of
reawakening stressed the universalist conception of man
and society, the rationalist disposition to examine all aspects
of life and thought, the repudiation of ascriptive authorities,
a search for new authorities in cultural, social and intellectual
spheres, an inducement to the individual to assert the claims
of his newly awakened conscience, and above all, a humanist
appreciation of man himself.