...utterance. In " Brahma," Emerson reproduces a thorough-going pantheism : — " If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They...subtle ways I keep and pass and turn again. " Far and forgot to me is near ; Shadow and sunlight are the same ; The vanished gods to me appear ; And...

...paraphrasing the Sanskrit passage. They are conceived as if uttered by the Allpervading Spirit : — Tf the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think...gods to me appear, And one to me are shame and fame. The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine in vain the sacred Seven ; But thou, meek lover of the...

...quite as much as to the divinity of existence the old Brahma lines : — " If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They...well the subtle ways I keep and pass and turn again." * * A yood instance is this quatrain of Mr. EmerBut, marchons, I touch a single subor dinate feature...

...commerce1, of spreading our ideas3 amongst peoples the rudiments of whose thought we have yet to learn ! " If the red slayer think he slays, or if the slain think he is "slain, they know not well the ways I keep, and pass, and turn " again." — Bhagavad-Gita. " Whence this great creation ? . . . ....

...differences are superficial and illusory. " If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or he the slain thinks he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep and pass and turn again." Let a person come out of the " common sense " that dwells in the secure possession of material things...

...more subtle and mystic view of the Oriental dreamers is faithfully mirrored in Emerson's " Brahma :" If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. The cautious and lentntive outlook of pagan philosophy finds expression in a fragment of Euripides...

...1857, which is still not so well understood, forty and five years after, as not to need quotation: If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain...They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, ancT turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to...

...appropriate to itself those words which Emerson put in the mouth of Brahma : If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. And further: They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings. Socialism, when sympathetically...

...is ir. its rery Ground one and the same : BLAHMA. BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON. If the Red Slayer thinks he slays, Or if the Slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways 1 keep and pass and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near, Sunlight and Shadow are the same, The...

...excited much the same ridicule that the " Orphic Sayings " had caused, nearly twenty years before. " If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain...well the subtle ways I keep and pass and turn again.' This is more paradoxical than anything Alcott wrote. But the poem is a perfect image of the " Bhagavad...