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British Quarterly Review the deep level
thought of the Indian sages may do much to
spiritualise the too material life of Europeans."
We shall do well also to remember what Pro-
fessor Max Muller has said in words eloquent
with wisdom and full of hopeful augury for the
future" Though these old anthropomorphic
ideas, sanctioned by creeds and criticisms, have
been rejected again and again, nothing has been
placed in their stead, and they naturally rise up
anew with every new rising generation. In
India alone the human mind has soared beyond
this point, at first by guesses and postulates,
such as we find in some of the Upanishads,
afterwards by strict reasoning, such as we find
in the Vedanta Sutras, and still more in the
commentary of Sankara. The Vedanta, whether
we call it a religion or a philosophy, has com-
pletely broken with the effete anthropomorphic
conception of god and of the soul as approach-
ing the throne of god, and has opened vistas
which were unknown to the greatest thinkers of
Europe." We cannot agree to every word, or
even to a good deal, of what is here stated, but
there is also much in it which is calculated to
British Quarterly Review the deep level
thought of the Indian sages may do much to
spiritualise the too material life of Europeans."
We shall do well also to remember what Pro-
fessor Max Muller has said in words eloquent
with wisdom and full of hopeful augury for the
future" Though these old anthropomorphic
ideas, sanctioned by creeds and criticisms, have
been rejected again and again, nothing has been
placed in their stead, and they naturally rise up
anew with every new rising generation. In
India alone the human mind has soared beyond
this point, at first by guesses and postulates,
such as we find in some of the Upanishads,
afterwards by strict reasoning, such as we find
in the Vedanta Sutras, and still more in the
commentary of Sankara. The Vedanta, whether
we call it a religion or a philosophy, has com-
pletely broken with the effete anthropomorphic
conception of god and of the soul as approach-
ing the throne of god, and has opened vistas
which were unknown to the greatest thinkers of
Europe." We cannot agree to every word, or
even to a good deal, of what is here stated, but
there is also much in it which is calculated to