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have been carried there. But being by all odds
the most distinguished person whom
Cyrus had taken excepting Croesus
himself, he would, beyond a doubt, have
been carried by Cyrus where Cyrus
himself went. Where did Cyrus go then? He
went to Ecbatana.

But stop a bit! Let us reflect upon that.
Babylon in those days was still the great
centre of science and of philosophy. If
Pythagoras went to Babylon his doctrine
would surely be saturated with Babylonian
ideas. At Ecbatana we
do not know exactly what the local influences

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