The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . sed a knowledge of the sciences through the different countries ofEurope in which they resided. Even previous to the ninth century theJews produced several original works on morals and philosophy. In the tenth century science was assiduously cultivated by them inSpain. At Toledo, they had schools which were greatly celebratedand crowded with scholars, no less than 12,000 pupils attending mathematics and astronomy there we
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . sed a knowledge of the sciences through the different countries ofEurope in which they resided. Even previous to the ninth century theJews produced several original works on morals and philosophy. In the tenth century science was assiduously cultivated by them inSpain. At Toledo, they had schools which were greatly celebratedand crowded with scholars, no less than 12,000 pupils attending mathematics and astronomy there were no schools in Europe thatcould compete with those at Toledo. Aben Ezra, a Jew, was the in-ventor of the method of dividing the celestial sphere equatorily; and itis said that in some of the philosophical treatises by the Jews of thatperiod, allusion is made to that important principle in the Newtoniansystem—the attraction of the heavenly bodies. What was true of the Jews in Spain, was likewise true of theirbrethren in Portugal, Germany, Italy, France, and elsewhere; every-where during the ages of darkness and general ignorance, the dispersed The Jews. 845. Third Synagogue, Philamxphu. Israelites were the zealous cultivators and successful teachers of theimportant sciences. They were also distinguished for their knowledge of medicine ;and notwithstanding the bitterest persecutions with which they wereeverywhere visited, they supplied physicians to most of the kings ofEurope, and even to some of the Popes of Rome. Thus were the Israelites the cultivators and transmitters of learn-ing through the entire period of darkness and gloom which envelopedthe minds of men during successive centuries. As they had been thefaithful depositories of those sacred books so invaluable to men, thuswere they also, under Providence, not only the depositories, but, fromtheir peculiar condition and dispersion, the propagators of humanscience and knowledge in all the kingdoms of Europe. These facts
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