"This Spirit is not got by wisdom; the Spirit chooses as his own the body of that man whom He chooses."] [Footnote 31: See above.

As descriptive of the immortal conscious Spirit, there is the famous verse: "If the slayer thinks to slay, if the slain thinks he is slain; they both understand not; this one (the Spirit) slays not, and is not slain" (_Katha_, 2.

19); loosely rendered by Emerson, 'If the red slayer think he slays,' etc.] [Footnote 32: The fact remarked by Thibaut that radically different systems of philosophy are built upon the Upanishads is enough to show how ambiguous are the declarations of the latter.] [Footnote 33: Compare Barth, _Religions_, p.

76.] * * * * *.