[70] Natural Religion, p. 194.
[71] Max Müller does not exclude faith in making this statement, which also occurs in his work The Origin and Growth of Religion, as on the next page he says, “What we call sense, reason, and faith are three functions of one and the same perceptive self.”—Origin and Growth of Religion, p. 227.
[72] Max Müller, Origin and Growth of Religion, p. 231.
[73] Max Müller, Origin and Growth of Religion, p. 250.
[74] Rig-Veda, X. 133. 6.
[75] “To the ancient seers the dawn seemed to open the golden gates of another world, and while these gates were open for the sun to pass in triumph, their eyes and their minds strove in their childish way to pierce beyond the limits of this finite world.”—Origin and Growth of Religion, p. 235.
[76] Atharva-Veda, X. 8. 16.
[77] Rig-Veda, I. 35. 2.
[78] Max Müller’s words on the subject are as follows: “These two concepts (the infinite, and order and law), which sooner or later must be taken in and minded by every human being, were at first no more than an impulse, but their impulsive force would not rest till it had beaten into the minds of the fathers of our race the deep and indelible impression that ‘all is right,’ and filled them with a hope, and more than a hope, that ‘all will be right.’”—Origin and Growth of Religion, p. 259.
[79] Rig-Veda, I. 102. 2.