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Excerpt from The Sciences Among the Jews, Before and During the Middle Ages; Tr: From the Fourth German Edition In the prosecution of my labors on the history of botany I was necessarily led to read the works of Albertus Magnus. His relation to Thomas Aquinas, and his dependence upon Aristotle and Arabic writers, prompted me to inquire what position these thinkers occupy with respect to one another, and to earlier sources. Carried further and further by my examination, I finally obtained an insight into a relation which even our more extensive histories pass by in utter silence, but which is, nevertheless, of extraordinary importance for the development of the human race. A brief survey of the result of my investigations is contained in the following pages. The Jews are surely the most remarkable of nations, and, where the symbolism of a Providence is allowed, they may well be called "the chosen people." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.