their toil and their sagacity than was the Babylonian philosopher; for perhaps, by that time, the magi also may be reckoned among the members of a forgotten Fauna, extinguished in the struggle for existence against their great rival, common sense.
FOOTNOTES
(1) "Discours sur les revolutions de la surface du globe." Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles, Ed. iv, t.i. p.185.]
(2) "On the Eclipses of Agathocles, Thales, and Xerxes," Philosophical Transactions, vol. cxliii.
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