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Excerpt from A General History of the World, From the Creation to the Present Time, Vol. 2: Including The entire Empires, Kingdoms, and States; Their Revolutions, Forms of Government, Laws, Religions, Customs and Manners; The Progress of Their Learning, Arts, Sciences, Commerce and Trade; Together With Their Chronology
Thofe who contend for the great antiquity and extenfive domi nion of the fl jrians, found their opinion upon the authority of Ctejias, w om Ari otle, who was once almofi his cotemporary, and lots of others of e antients, declare to he a fabulous creator unworth of credit. Indeed whoever perufes his Indica and Afirian lfifiory, is not going to fcruple to conclude that -he has been a man of little fincerity, and that his writings are a mere to mance, calculated to afionifh and amaze, and to ftraiu credu lit beyond all oilible bounds.
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