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all barbarians * that we read of in Hiftory, the Greek Learning and 

 Philofophy are not extinguiflied in Greece. In the Patriarch's 

 Univerfity at Conftantinople, Philofophy and the Sciences are taught 

 in tlie antient Greek language, and the ProfefTors there, as I am well 

 informed, converfe with their fcholars in that language ; and they 

 have fo far preferved the pronunciation of it, that they can diftinguifh 

 betwixt the accents and the quantity, a diftindion which no man in 

 Europe can make, except in theory, and which is entirely loft in the 

 Tulgar Greek that is now fpoken. This I was informed of by Dr. 

 Trumbull, now in Florida, if he be yet alive, who was married to a 

 Greek woman ; and having been much at Conftantinople and in 

 Greece, and being himfelf a fcholar, was well informed of the ftate 

 of learning there f. 



But there is a proof inconteftable of the Greek language and 

 Philofophy not being yet loft in GreecCj to be feen in a book printed 

 at Leipfic, in 1766, written by one Eugenlus Diaconus^ in pure 

 Attic Greek, containing a very good fyftem of Logic. He was firft 

 a Profeflbr in a College fituated fomewhere near to Mount Athos ; 

 then he was made a ProfcfTor in the Patriarch's Univerfity at Con- 

 ftantinople ; and is now, as I am informed, a Biftiop in Ruflia J. 

 Of this Work I have made good uie in my Firft Volume of Meta* 

 phyfics, in folving a difficulty which I could not find folved in eithei^ 

 Plato or Arifcotlej concerning the fame idea, containing and being 

 contained in another idea ; upcn v^'i^ich, being clearly explained^ 

 depends nothing lefsthan the truth of Syllogifm §» 



Whether' 



* See Origin of La.hnuag'?, Vol. III. p. ^^t: 



t See what I have further faid on this fuhjedl) Orjgin of Language, VcL II. p-. 295. 

 X See a quotation from this Work of his, in Vol. I. of the Origin of Language^ p. ^f^ 

 of the Second Edition. 



^ See Antient Metaphyfics, Vol. I, p. 4.79^ 



