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authors of his monumental work were
 great scholars In all secular sciences
 then existing. and that they were fla
 miliar with mathematics, astronomy, | physics, anatomy, ethics, philosophy, archaeology, history, geography, etc
 In his second great work, also writ 1 ten in Arabic, the Pride of the Per-
 plexed" (translated into Hebrew by Ibn ribbon, into French by the blind sa- want, pr. Solomon Munk, and into Eng
 fish by the learned Dr. Friedlaender, | principal Jews college, London) he un- dertook the gigantic task to show the
 way how the Mosaic religion could be
 brought Into harmony and peace with the Aristoteian philosophy
 In his third great work. written in
 elegant Hebrew, called the Strong
 Hand" and divided into fourteen large
 divisions with thousands of sub -divi-
 sions and paragraphs, he showed his
 astonishing and extensive familiarity
 whit the past material of the gigantic
 Talmud, and the logical and systemati-
 cal order he manifested in arranging
 this labyrinth to find the way out with out Ariadnes thread is the object of
 the highest astonishment and admira- ton of all scholars, who are only su- perficially familiar with this great in tellectual structure
 As the whole of his valuable life was spent in the grand attempt of bringing religion and science into conciliation and harmony. so he began his last mentioned work with religion and closed it with science
 He begins: The principle of all prin- ciples and the foundation of all wisrom Is to know that there is in the universe existing a First Being, who called into existence everything and all other be- ings emanating from heaven and earth, and all those existing in the between them owe their existence only to His being existing a prtori.
 He closes: In that time (the Messi anic) there will be in the universe neither hunger nor war, neither jeal- ousy nor strife, because prosperity will act in abundance all sweets and deli cious things will be like dust the occu patton of the world will be only with the knowledge of God. Therefore Isra- el will be great and wise, understand ing the mysterious things and reaching the knowledge of God in the highest conception the mental strength of man is capable of, as it is written ''The earth will be filled with knowledge as the water covers the sea-"
 He thus began with religion-confes- sion of faith-and closed with knowl- edge-scence.
 He wrote several minor treatises; a terminoogy of logics, a letter on com pulsory adoption of creed and his fa- nous letter to the Congregat of Yema, wherein he shows that the weapons used by the adversaries of Judaism were of @ three-fold nature, the sword used by Amatek, Seunacherib, Nebu- philosophy used by the Persians, Greeks and Romans; revela- | tion used by Christianity and Islam. But Israel went forth and of all these | battles as a hero, The first followed | the trade of the family and was deal- | CT in jewelry; later he began practising | medicine, and last he became Saladin's | house physician. Even Richard Coeu de Lion. of England, tried, but in vain, to get his services
 On the height of his name and fame he could not escape the persecution of the minor lights, who envied his repu- tation, but his greatness outlived them all.
 To show the great esteem he was held in among his own people we have only to quote the popular proverb re- ferred to him: From Moses Ghe law giver) to Moses (Maimonides) there arose none like unto Moses (Malmon- des.)
 He died December IS, 1204.