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a significant fact. It is that Iamblichus
asserts that Pythagoras was taken prisoner
by Cambyses in Egypt and was carried off
to Babylon. But Cambyses was not in Egypt
until 527 B.C., [????]
four or five years after Pythagoras had settled in
Crotona,— Croton. This, then, is plainly
impossible; and the method of the German
higher critics,— I do not speak only of such
extravagant critics as the very learned
Rose, but of such temperate critics as
the highly esteemed Zeller,— is, having shown
the assertion to be false, to cast it aside
as worthless. That is very illogical; for
false assertions are frequently far more