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the earlier than of the later Greeks ; and, as it is scarcely probable that the 

 communication should have taken place, and the knowledge been imparted 

 at the precise interval of time which intervened between the earlier and 

 later schools of Greek philosophy, and especially between the Pythagoreans 

 and Platonists, I should be disposed to conclude that the Indians were in 

 this instance teachers rather than learners. 



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