The second Renaissance got ahead of another Dark Age by uncovering what the first Renaissance failed to uncover and thereby making it a new source of enlightenment.
If the first Renaissance is to the Judeo-Christian-Islam faith establishment, the second Renaissance is to a Egypto-Judeo-Christian-Islam faith establishment.
Greatness be to Sigmund Freud and others whose forensic analysis of ancient history traced this faith establishment back to ancient Egypt.