On the Method of Zadig by Thomas Henry Huxley
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On the Method of Zadig by Thomas Henry Huxley This is Essay #1 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" RETROSPECTIVE PROPHECY AS A FUNCTION OF SCIENCE "Une marque plus sure que toutes celles de Zadig."<1>--Cuvier. It is an usual and a commendable practice to preface the discussion of the views of a philosophic thinker by some account of the man and of the circumstances which shaped his life and coloured his way of looking at things; but, though Zadig is cited in one of the most important chapters of Cuvier's greatest work, little is known about him, and that little might perhaps be better authenticated than it is. It is said that he lived at Babylon in the time of King Moabdar; but the name of Moabdar does not appear in the list of Babylonian sovereigns brought to light by the patience and the industry of the decipherers of cuneiform inscriptions in these later years; nor indeed am I aware that there is any other |
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