Moprrn Innration or THE Vitpas, &c, 35 
Tasmat bhhrantim paretyajya Brahma dra dhanam curu, 
Therefore, quitting delusion, do reverence to the Supreme, 
Anyet sévam swapna tulyam catham tasmin ratincharet, 
All the rest isa dream, why place affection on it? 
‘© Le BramMa a quartres visages n’est certainement pas le premier 
“* etre, il n’en est point une incarnation, ce n’est point lui qui a creé 
** tout ce que nous voyons; il n’est qu’un homme, un homme comme toy 
** et entre lui et toy il ne a mulle difference. Cest le premier etre qui 
** seul'a creé toutes choses c’est lui qui les conserve et les detruit a son 
** gre mais cet estre ie s’est point encarné connue iu le diss il ne s’est 
“point uni aux gounalous il n’a jamais eu de commerce avec les femmes, 
** @est® une rmpreté de dire et de le penser quittez donc tout ce qui 
‘* pest que prestige et mensonge pour ne t’attacher que lui.??+ 
Iv the former part of this version the sense of the orginal is preserved 
with sufficient exactitude, but that of the three last lines is greatly ob- 
scured. Comparing this with the former extract, a generally correct 
notion may be formed of the mode in which the whole translation is’ 
executed, and, notwithstanding the identity 1 have noticed between the 
* Not in the original. 
+ The whole scope of these writings may be inferred from this extract: the intention is evidently to 
destroy the existing belief, without regarding consequences or caring whether a blank be substituted for 
it ornot. To the doctrine here taught, as preparatory to a'system of deism, nothing can be objected; 
. . . e . atx 76 "na 4 nate 1 
but, after the teacher has succeeded.in convincing his. pupil that the deity never was incarnated, how 
is he to instruct him in the mysteries of the Christian faith? 
