learn the Modesty not to pretend to be the first after the Apostles
who had endeavour'd to turn Men from Darkness to LIGHT,
since they see so many worthy Persons among the Mahometans
gone before them_.]

[Footnote 9: Avenpace--_This Author is oftentimes quoted by the Name
of_ Ebn'olfayeg; _he was accounted a Philosopher. of great Ingenuity
and Judgment_. Maimonides, _in his Epistle to_ R. Samuel
Aben Tybbon, _gives him a great Character_. Abu'l Hasen Ali,
_who collected all his Works, and reduced them into One Volume,
prefers him before all the Mahometan Philosophers whatsoever.
He was famous for his Poetry as well as Philosophy; he died young,
being prison'd at_ Fez, _in the Year of the_ Hegira 533. _i.e. of
Christ_, 1138, or 39, _others in the Year_ 525, _which answers to_
1131. _Most of his Works are imperfect_. See Dr. _Pocock's
Elenchus Scriptorum prefix'd to the Arabick Edition of this Book_.]

[Footnote 10: _Tho' this instance will serve to explain the meaning of the
Author, yet 'tis very improper, because 'tis utterly impossible to
give a Man that is born Blind, the least notion or
idea of Light or Colours_.]

[Footnote 11: _The Hanifitick Sect,_ and the _Mahometan_ Religion,--_That
is, not only the_ Hanifitick _Sect, but even the_ Mahometan _Religion
too, of which that Sect is a Branch, does forbid the over
curious enquiring into these abstruse Matters. This Sect was
very early among the_ Mahometans, _for it had its Name from_
Abu Hanifah Al Nooman, _who was born,in the 80 year of_
Hegira, or according to others in the 70. _I must confer,
that it seems something odd, that he should mention that Sect first,