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The reader leaps from sentence to sentence, as from one
stepping-stone to another, while the stream of the story rushes
past unregarded. The Bhagvat-Geeta is less sententious and
poetic, perhaps, but still more wonderfully sustained and
developed. Its sanity and sublimity have impressed the minds
even of soldiers and merchants. It is the characteristic of
great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion
to the hasty and the deliberate reader. To the practical they
will be common sense, and to the wise wisdom; as either the
traveller may wet his lips, or an army may fill its water-casks
at a full stream.
One of the most attractive of those ancient books that I have met
with is the Laws of Menu. According to Sir William Jones,
"Vyasa, the son of Parasara, has decided that the Veda, with its
Angas, or the six compositions deduced from it, the revealed
system of medicine, the Puranas or sacred histories, and the code
of Menu, were four works of supreme authority, which ought never
to be shaken by arguments merely human.


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