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BABYLONIAN LITERATURE.

affected a sort of materialism and impiety, in the belief that by so doing they were following Grecian style and manner.[1]

  1. ↑ I think that the Arabian legend of Empedocles, and the materialist writings which are ascribed to him are of Babylonian origin, and belong to this movement.
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