Modern Review January 1912

It may be that the mystic importance of the number seven was originally born of the contemplation of the constellation of the Great Bear. [...] From this stratum of thought then are born the names of the week-days which from the east of Bengal to the west of France or the north of Scandinavia are sacred to the Sun the Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus and Saturn. [...] In the opinion of some amongst the learned we have here in the Mahabharata recapitulation of all the old wonder-world of the early sky-fazes. [...] As in some marvelous tapestry they are here gathered tgether in one case for a battle in another for a life —and out of the clash of the fomen's steel out of the loyalty of vassal and comrade out of warring loves and coflicting ideals is made one of the noblest of the scriptures of the world. [...] Greatest of all was the renunciation of the monk but next to this and a different expression of the same greatness was the acceptance of life and the world as their master not as their slave.