revolves  through  phases  of  matter,  coming  up  again
in  vapor  or  tree,  that  which  is  called  "soul"  in  each,
the  intellectual  and  moral  quality,  the  sphere  of  aspi-
ration and  relation  to  the  infinite,  however  it  may
change  and  develop,  must  escape  such  fate,  —  must
abide,  according  to  this  philosophy,  in  the  imperish-
able place  of  soul  itself.  Honor  to  pantheism  for
affirming  the  oneness  of  spiritual  substance,  for  the
sweep  of  its  great  circle  that  leaves  no  life  homeless
and  wandering  outside  God.
The  recognition  of  an  inmost  personality,  lifted  in
pure  independence  of  all  the  change  and  loss

Correspond-  r  x  °

encewith  involved  in  actions  and  their  fruits,  is  as  posi-
t  e  san  ya.  ^^  -n  ^e  Bhagava(jgita.  as  in  Kapila's  dis-
tinction between  Prakriti  and  Purusha.  In  fact,  this
distinction,  with  the  whole  Sankhya  system,1  is  here
fully  set  forth ;  though  as  but  a  single  side  of  an
eclectic  philosophy,  and  combined  —  Kapila  would
hardly  say,  reconciled  —  with  that  oneness  of  spiritual
being  to  which  he  objected  as  opposed  to  individual
claims.
