And not less significant are the points of view to which one is led in the useful little work of Scherman on the philosophical hymns of the Atharvan.

Scherman wishes to show the connection between the Upanishads and Vedas.

But the bearing of his collection is toward a closer union of the two bodies of works, and especially of the Atharvan, not to the greater gain in age of the Upanishads so much as to the depreciation in venerableness of the former.

If the Atharvan has much more in common with the Br[=a]hmanas and Upanishads than has the Rig Veda, it is because the Atharvan stands, in many respects, midway in time between the era of Vedic hymnology and the thought of the philosophical period.

The terminology is that of the Br[=a]hmanas, rather than that of the Rig Veda.