The Peril of the Republic of the United States of America - Percy T. Magan

accommodating four students; the academy being
presided over by a rector. In Cordova, Granada,
and other great cities there were universities
presided over by the Jews, the Mohammedan
maxim being that the real learning of a man is of
more public importance than any particular
religious opinions he may entertain. ... The
Mohammedan liberality was in striking contrast
with the intolerance of Europe. ... In the
universities some of the professors in polite
literature gave lectures on Arabic classical works;
others taught rhetoric or composition, or
mathematics, or astronomy. From these institutions
many of the practises observed in our colleges
were derived. They held commencements, at which
poems were read and orations delivered in presence
of the public. They had also, in addition to these
schools of general learning, professional ones,
particularly for medicine. ...
“The Saracens commenced the application of
chemistry to the theory and practise of medicine, in
the explanation of the functions of the human body,
and in the cure of its diseases. Nor was their
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