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...element when she could give information. "The great philosopher, Muag Big, to be sure," said she, "and his daughter. He is, they say, the greatest thinker alive. He has an idea that his daughter will be the mother of a great race, and he is looking for a young ape who shall be a fit husband for her. Is n't that a suffocatingly queer idea? I am going to see his daughter, Tue Swe, to-morrow; won't you go with...
...that, in order to be virtuous, a man must entertain certain beliefs about the nature and origin of the Universe, about Immortality, Free Will, &c. Now it is different. If popular education has done any thing at all, it is to show to the satisfaction of every clear-headed thinker that one may believe that the sun stands still, and yet be a bad man; while another may believe that it moves, and yet be a good man; in other words, that it is not the belief of a man which establishes his goodness or badness, but his acts...
This matter is worthy of more than ordinary comment, because Omar is, by all odds, the most advanced thinker among Persian poets, and, though he was little known outside of his own country until about ten years ago, he is now occupying a position in the literary history of the world which a recognition of his merits...
Here are some of the lines of this free-thinker of the eleventh century. They must have shocked the feelings of the Orthodox Mussulmans...
...this Board, the University has been deprived of one of its most loyal men. Faithful to his duties of observation, his latest hours were expended in the to him agreeable duty of noting the proficiency of the scholars from whose presence he issued so suddenly to die. An independent thinker, an exact scholar, and an accomplished author, he leaves behind him a reputation equally honorable to the institution which developed his talents and to his own fidelity to the trusts reposed...