The Golden Verses of Pythagoras (Classic Reprint)

TRANSLATOR'S FOREWORD
IN this twentieth century, the sacred books of the ancients
are undoubtedly better understood than they were
even by their contemporaries, for their authors, by the
greatness of their genius, are as much nearer to us, as they
were distant from them. At the close of the eighteenth
century, the light which came from the illimitable mind of
Fabre d'Olivet shone with solitary splendour and was destined
to be seen by only a few devoted followers. But
history shows that a great inspirer always appears at the
beginning of every great epoch, and however small the number
of his disciples, these disciples with their pupils form
the magnetic chain which, according to Plato, carries his
thought qut into the world.
Fabre d'Olivet, born at Ganges, Bas-Languedoc, Dec. 8,
1768, was distinguished even in his own day not only for
the extent of his learning but for the rectitude of his judgment
and the sublimity of his conceptions. If one can infer
from the all

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