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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2009
My attention was recently drawn to the arguments of English divines, in answer to certain physiological publications tending to materialism, in consequence of the similarity, if not the identity of some of their reasonings, with those which I recollected to have seen in a Persian work, written by a Mohammedan in the thirteenth century. I accordingly sought for the passages, and the following translated extract from the “ Akhlâk è Nàseri” is the result of the search. This striking similarity of reasoning is probably to be attributed to the actual derivation of each from one common source— the works of the Greek philosophers, with which the Persian author evinces an intimate acquaintance.
* It is said to have been written in the mountains of Persia, while the author was the forced guest of a successor of that Hassan from whom the English word assassin is supposed to be derived, and whose designation was Sheikh ul Jebâl, Lord of the Mountains, generally translated old man of the mountain. For the details of the singular abduction ot Nâser ud Dín from his quiet home at Bokhâra to this savage abode, see Malcolm's History of Persia, vol. i.