“I have little or nothing,” he answered, “to add to what my worthy friend has already said. The doubt to which he alluded, as prevailing in the days of old, has been still more clearly expressed than in the passage quoted by him from the Vedas. Another poet puts it still more forcibly:
‘Who knows,’ he says, ‘who knows the secret, who proclaimed it here?
Whence, whence this manifold creation sprang;
The gods themselves came later into being;
Who knows from whence this great creation sprang?
He from whom all this great creation came,
Whether His will created it or was mute?
The most High Seer that is in highest heaven,
He knows it, or perchance even He knows it not.’[6]