64 BABYLONIAN LITERATURE. 



affected a sort of materialism and impiety, 

 in the belief that by so doing they were 

 following Grecian style and manner. 1 



1 I think that the Arabian legend of Empedocles, and the mate- 

 rialist \#itings which are ascribed to him are of Babylonian origin, 

 and belong to this movement. 



