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THE COSMOGONY OF THE VEDAS. 
ancient prophets and poets. But what they all agree in is 
this, that ' the whole creation, all plants, all animals, all 
men are due to the one Sat, are upheld by it, and will return 
to it.'" 
This theory of creation is the logical outcome of Monism 
or Pantheism. And as Monism or Pantheism is far inferior, 
from a religious point of view, to the idea of personal gods, 
however imperfect, so we may remark that this theory of 
creation is equally inferior to either of the two older ones 
which appear in the Rig- Veda. The identity of cause and 
effect, the subject and object, which appears in the Upani- 
shads was made the fundamental doctrine of the Yedanta or 
Non-dual philosophy, a philosophy the most widely accepted 
in India at the present day. 
