[Footnote 37: A very beautiful story in the MS., which has not yet
seen the light. The opinion of the deity is corroborated by that very
clever woman, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who says in one of her
letters from Constantinople that if women went without clothes, the
face would hardly count at all. Nearly all of them would gain
immensely by wearing a permanent veil, but the pretty ones would never
consent to it.]
[Footnote 38: Purusha is the philosophical term for the Primordial
Male, of which Prakriti is the female antithesis. The god is combining
Goethe and Swinburne: the "eternal feminine" and the "holy spirit of
man."]
[Footnote 39: See note _ante_, p. 47.]
[Footnote 40: A very short word for a very long process, and
untranslatable by any English equivalent. It means the whole system of
the laws of metempsychosis, running in a long chain forward into the
future, and back into the past.]
[Footnote 41: That is, _sat_ or _sattwa_ = goodness, or true being.]