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by the Persians.

There are some further consequences to be drawn
from the supposed fact of this journey.
Pythagoras never could have accomplished his
escape without help. He must have sought
it. He must have sought sympathy.
Sympathy and help he would and (without
a doubt I say it) did find among the very
men whom he would naturally have desired
to become acquainted with, the priests and
the philosophers. In Arya he would have found
Brahmins. Now Clemens and several
other authorities inform us that he did