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The Foundations of the Psychological Theory 47
to carry it to its farthest rational limits. Their materials have been
skilfully welded together by firm hands and any inconsistency
in our handling of them shatters the whole fabric of their sense
and their coherent thinking.
Thus there emerged in my mind, revealing itself as it were
out of the ancient verses, a Veda which was throughout the
Scripture of a great and antique religion already equipped with
a profound psychological discipline, — a Scripture not confused
in thought or primitive in its substance, not a medley of heterogeneous
or barbarous elements, but one, complete and selfconscious
in its purpose and in its purport, veiled indeed by the
cover, sometimes thick, sometimes transparent, of another and
material sense, but never losing sight even for a single moment
of its high spiritual aim and tendency.