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would have been;— probably not of any
very powerful kind. He would have been
influenced,— and perhaps we may
say chiefly influenced by the Persian
magi that Cyrus would have had
there, whose ruling idea was a dualism of
good and evil. Now how is it, in fact?

There is not a trace of
Babylonian science in the doctrine
of Pythagoras. That is, indeed, what most
marks him off from all the other
philosophers of Greece, and sets him
into a class of his own. For Greece was
soon to become largely under the intellectual
sway of Babylon, at least, in scientific