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guage it were asked how much meaning is there in the eat and how much in the s? And is the whole meaning of the word conveyed by these two portions of it distinctly or by them taken jointly?
Neither can much improvement arise from such speculations as the following which are the themes suggested by tho Vedanta;—in what manner is the the soul absorbed in the Deity? What relation does it bear to the Divine Essence? Nor will youths be fitted to be better members of society by the Vedantic doctrines which teach them to believe, that all visible things have no real existence, that as father, brother, &c. have no actual entity they consequently deserve no real affection, and therefore the sooner we escape from them and leave the world the better. Again, no essential benefit can be derived by the student of the Mimansa from knowing what it is that makes the killer of a goat sinless by pronouncing certain passages of the Vedanta and what is the real nature and operative influence of passages of the Vedas, &c.
The student of the Naya Shastra cannot be said to have improved his mind after he has
