Note 319 — 1846
Reading edition
Compare, in Bacon’s Essay Of Youth and Age, “A certaine Rabbine upon the Text, Your Young Men shall see visions, and your Old Men shall dream dreames, inferreth that Young Men are admitted nearer to God than Old, because Vision is a clearer Revelation than a Dreame.”
See Professor Max Müller’s note to his translation of the Upanishads (Sacred Books of the East, vol. xv. p. 164), beginning “Drivudagomga uses a curious argument in support of the existence of another world.”—Ed.