5: On ne peut assez longtemps, chez notre espèce,_ _Fermer la porte à la Raison._ _Mais, dès qu'elle entre avec adresse,_ _Elle reste dans la maison,_ _Et bientôt elle en est maîtresse._ --(Voltaire.) (We men may, doubtless, all our lives To Reason bar the door. But if to enter she contrives, The house she leaves no more, And soon as mistress there presides.) [6] _Τὸ ἔν_= the eternal Reality outside Time and Space _Tὸ πᾱν_ = the phaenomenal universe.--(_Translator_.) [7] Mâyâ is "the delusive reflection of the true eternal Entity."--(_Translator_.)] [8] This expression is used in the Brahmanical philosophy to denote the relation between the world-fiction as a whole and its individualised parts. _V._ A. E. Gough, _Philosophy of the Upanishads_, 1882.--(_Translator_.) [9] _Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto_. Terence, _Heaut_., I. 1, 25.--(_Translator_.) [10] It is probable that many, perhaps, most cases of truly disinterested Compassion--when they really occur--are due not to any conscious _knowledge_ of this sort, but to an unconscious impulse springing from the ultimate unity of all living things, and acting, so to say, automatically.--(_Translator_.) [11] Cf. Richard Wagner: _Jesus von Nazareth_; pp. 79-90.--(_Translator_.) [12] That man is endowed with true insight who sees that the same ruling power is inherent in all things, and that when these perish, it perishes not. For if he discerns the same ruling power everywhere present, he does not degrade himself by his own fault: thence he passes to the highest path.--For the _Bhagavadgîtâ_ the reader is referred to Vol. VIII. of _The Sacred Books of the East_ (Oxford: Clarendon Press), where (p. 105) this passage is translated as follows:--"He sees (truly) who sees the supreme lord abiding alike in all entities, and not destroyed though they are destroyed. For he who sees the lord abiding everywhere alike, does not destroy himself[*] by himself, and then reaches the highest goal." [*]Not to have true knowledge, is equivalent to self-destruction." Cf. Fauche] Le Mahā-bhārata: Paris, 1867; Vol. VII., p. 128:-- "Celui-là possède une vue nette des choses, qui voit ce principe souverain en tous les êtres d'une manière égale, et leur survivre, quand ils périssent. Il ne se fait aucun tort à soi-même par cette vue d'un principe qui subsiste également partout: puis, après cette vie, il entre dans la voie supérieure." The obscurity of Schlegel's Latin in the second sentence is sufficiently removed by these more recent translations.--(_Translator_.) JUDICIUM REGIAE DANICAE SCIENTIARUM SOCIETATIS.