of the oldest Vedas, the unity of God seems
very clearly expressed.

RIG-VEDA, X. 121.

"In the beginning there arose the Source of golden light. He was the
only born Lord of all that is. He established the earth, and this sky.
Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice?

"He who gives life. He who gives strength; whose blessing all the
bright gods desire; whose shadow is immortality, whose shadow is death.
Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice?

"He who through his power is the only king of the breathing and
awakening world. He who governs all, man and beast. Who is the god to
whom we shall offer our sacrifice?

"He whose power these snowy mountains, whose power the sea proclaims,
with the distant river. He whose these regions are, as it were his two
arms. Who is the god to whom we shall offer our sacrifice?

"He through whom the sky is bright and the earth firm. He through whom
heaven was stablished; nay, the highest heaven. He who measured out the
light in the air. Who is the god to whom we shall offer our sacrifice?

"He to whom heaven and earth, standing firm by his will, look up,
trembling inwardly. He over whom the rising sun shines forth. Who is
the god to whom we shall offer our sacrifice?

"Wherever the mighty water-clouds went, where they placed the seed and
lit the fire, thence arose he who is the only life of the bright gods.
Who is the god to whom we shall offer our sacrifice?

"He who by his might looked even over the water-clouds, the clouds
which gave strength and lit the sacrifice; _he who is God above all
gods_. Who is the god to whom we shall offer our sacrifice?

"May he not destroy us,--he the creator of the earth,--or he, the
righteous, who created heaven; he who also created the bright and
mighty waters. Who is the god to whom we shall offer our
sacrifices?"[40]

The oldest and most striking account of creation is in the eleventh
chapter of the tenth Book of the Rig-Veda. Colebrooke, Max Muller, Muir,
and Goldstucker, all give a translation of this remarkable hymn and speak
of it with admiration. We take that of Colehrooke, modified by that of
Muir:--

"Then there was no entity nor non-entity; no world, no sky, nor aught
above it; nothing anywhere, involving or involved; nor water deep and
dangerous. Death was not, and therefore no immortality, nor distinction