But, now and then, nature _seems to be something_, it will not be ignored or lost in God.

Personality, activity, or human nature rebel against the pantheistic idealism, the abstract spiritualism of this system.
To conquer body, Vischnu or spirit enters into body, again and again.
Spirit must appear as body to destroy Nature.

For thus is shown that spirit cannot be excluded from anything,--that it can descend into the lowest forms of life, and work _in_ law as well as above law.
But all the efforts of Brahmanism could not arrest the natural development of the system.

It passed on into polytheism and idolatry.

The worship of India for many centuries has been divided into a multitude of sects.