The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/XII Sir

13th Dec., 1889.

DEAR SIR,

I have all particulars from your letter; and from Rakhal's which followed, I came to know of your meeting. I have received the pamphlet written by you. A kind of scientific Advaitism has been spreading in Europe ever since the theory of  the conservation of energy was discovered, but all that is Parinâmavâda, evolution by real modification. It is good you have shown the difference  between  this  and  Shankara's  Vivartavâda  (progressive manifestation by unreal superimposition). I can't appreciate your citing Spencer's parody on the German transcendentalists; he himself is fed much on their doles. It is doubtful whether your opponent Gough understands his Hegel sufficiently. Anyway, your rejoinder is very pointed and thrashing.

Yours etc.,

VIVEKANANDA.