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22 ST. JOHN OF DAMASCUS.<br />

learn. They were compelled to put<br />

themselves to<br />

school under the very people they had vanquished.<br />

Thus the Persians and Syrians, conquered though<br />

they were and tributary, from the ignorance <strong>of</strong> their<br />

ma<strong>st</strong>ers retained in their hands the control <strong>of</strong> the<br />

admini<strong>st</strong>rative machinery.&quot;<br />

We may thus find less<br />

difficulty in under<strong>st</strong>anding how a Joannes Philoponus<br />

should be able to influence the conquering Omar at<br />

Alexandria,<br />

or the father <strong>of</strong> John <strong>of</strong> Damascus be u<br />

high <strong>of</strong>ficer <strong>of</strong> <strong>st</strong>ate in the divan <strong>of</strong> Moawiyah.

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