However, taking it for granted, that both these Imagin'd that there was something in, it that favoured theirĮnthusiastick Notions. Ashwell, another time by the Quakers, who Into English, because I was inform'd that it had been done twiceĪlready once by Dr. I was not willing ('though importun'd) to undertake the translating it Judicious Reader will find his Account in the Perusal of it. There are a great many lively Stroaks in it and I doubt not but a 'Tis certain, that he was a Man of Parts and very good Learning,Ĭonsidering the Age he liv'd in, and the way of studying in those Times. How well he has succeeded in this Attempt, I leave to the Reader to Of the Soul, and all things necessary to Salvation. Shew, how Human Capacity, unassisted by any External Help, may, by dueĪpplication, attain to the Knowledge of Natural Things, and so byĭegrees find out its Dependance upon a Superior Being, the Immortality This hasīeen very well receiv'd in the East one Argument of which is, that it
He wrote some other Pieces, which are not come to our Hands. He liv'd in Spain, as appears from one or two Passages in this Book. The Author liv'd something above five hundred Years ago. Who died very ancient in the Year of the Hegira 595, which isĬo-incident with the 1198th Year of our Lord according to which Account, Good Reason to think, that this Author was contemporary with Averroes, Oxford, prefix'd a Preface to it in which he tells us, that he has Late eminent Professor of the Oriental Languages in the University of Pococke first publish'd this Arabick Author with hisĪccurate Latin Version, Anno 1671. That I have no reason to fear but he will be welcome. Well acquainted, and to whom you have long ago shown so great a Respect, Than Hai Ebn Yokdhan, with whose Character and Language you are so You, Sir, the worthy Son of so great a Father. Self indebted to him for his Learned Works, I thought I could no wayĮxpress better, than by taking some Opportunity to pay my Respects to Whose Memory I much reverence, and how much I acknowledge my Pococke, the Glory and Ornament of our AgeĪnd Nation.
Qualifications you enjoy, as a Paternal Inheritance, descending from the
Incline you to pardon what is by me done amiss. AndĪs your Learning enables you to do him Justice, so your Candor will I could not inĮquity send him to any other Person, you being the sole Proprietor. His first and best Master and confesses, that his being put in aĬapacity to travel thro' Europe, is owing to your Hand. Wherever he comes, he acknowledges you for Hai Ebn Yokdhan returns to you again, in a Dress different from that The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan By Ibn Tufail (Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Tufail al-Qasi) Newly Translated from the Original Arabick by Simon Ockley (1708) *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE IMPROVEMENT OF HUMAN REASON ***įrom images generously made available by Gallica With this eBook or online at Title: The Improvement of Human Reason
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