Pythagoras

Pythagoras

Pythagoras, the ancient Greek philosopher, From Thomas Stanley, (1655), The history of philosophy

One of the Master-Builders of old was Pythagoras; he brought from Ind the wisdom of the BUDDHA, and translated it into Greek thought, adding to its austere grandeur the beauty characteristic of Greece, as Grecian art made tenderer the stern outlines of Indian sculpture. Those whose thought runs on Greek lines will here find the oldest wisdom garbed in Grecian grace, retaining the beauty of simplicity and adding the fairness of form. May those who read be drawn to meditate; may those who meditate find the hidden treasures. So will modern western life become gradually permeated with a refining, ennobling influence and schools of Pythagorean thought will do for the modern nations what the school of Pythagoras did for ancient Greece. Annie Besant

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