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derive some of his doctrines from the Brahmins. The
German higher critics have denied this. They
naturally would, because their grand principle
of criticism is that whatever your only
witnesses say is false. They seek to reconstruct
ancient history in defiance of all
the testimony out of the ????ei? of an inhabitant
of a German university town. But
Dr. L. von Schroeder, the eminent Sanskritist,
has proved pretty conclusively that there
are half a dozen features of the Pythagorean doctrine
which can have had no other origin than
a Brahminical origin. There is one consequence
more; pretty doubtful I admit, yet worth
taking into account. That region about

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derive some of his doctrines from the Brahmins. The
German higher critics have denied this. They
naturally would, because their grand principle
of criticism is that whatever your only
witnesses say is false. They seek to reconstruct
ancient history in definace of all
the testimony out of the ????ei? of an inhabitant
of a German university town. But
Dr. L. von Schroeder, the eminent Sanskritist,