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with the fact the Pythagoras had been in
Egypt. The German higher critics never
evinced their marvellous genius for
blundering more than when they
have cast a certain doubt on this
fact, which is not only testified to by
every writer from Plato down who ever
uttered the name of Pythagoras, so that
to this day, if a child asks its mamma
who Pythagoras was, the first or second sentence
of the reply will mention his being a
great traveller. And aside from all testimony,
it is a priori certain that Pythagoras would go
to Egypt. For in the relative state of culture
of Ionia where he was born in the island