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¹ Cf. above, pp. 224 f. *A. Weber* already has compared Brahman with the logos-idea in Neo-Platonism and in Christianity. Thus also *Deussen*, System des Vedanta, p. 51 and Max F. *Hecker*, Schopenhauer und die indische Philosophie (Cologne, 1897), p. 3. Deussen desires to bring Brahman into accord with the "will" of Schopenhauer, but, as Hecker (p. 82) mildly expresses it, is forced "to offer some violence to the conception of Brahman." A comparison which is more justifiable is that with the "*mana*" of the Melanesians, which has been emphasised by N. *Söderblom*, in his "Das Werden des Götterglaubens," 1916, pp. 270 ff.