Here it was truly said the Genius of the East met the Genius of the West, and this Paris of antiquity became a focus of fashionable dissipation and universal skepticism.

In the allurements of its bewitching society even the Jews forgot their patriotism.

They abandoned the language of their forefathers, and adopted Greek.
In the establishment of the Museum, Ptolemy Soter and his son Philadelphus had three objects in view: 1.

The perpetuation of such knowledge as was then in the world; 2.

Its increase; 3.