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cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat…Geeta； since whose composition
years of the gods have elapsed； and in comparison with which our
modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial； and I doubt
if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of
existence； so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions。 I lay
down the book and go to my well for water； and lo！ there I meet the
servant of the Bramin； priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra； who
still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas； or dwells
at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug。 I meet his
servant come to draw water for his master； and our buckets as it
were grate together in the same well。 The pure Walden water is
mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges。 With favoring winds it
is wafted past the site of the fabulous islands of Atlantis and the
Hesperides； makes the periplus of Hanno； and； floating by Ternate
and Tidore and the mouth of the Persian Gulf； melts in the tropic
gales of the Indian seas； and is landed in ports of which Alexander
only heard the names。