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When Kant declared he was the only one of his critics that understood The Critique of Pure Reason, Maimon returned to Berlin to devote himself to the philosophical work that was to give him a pinnacle apart among the Kantians. Goethe and Schiller made flattering advances to him. Berlin society was at his feet.
This seems to us like going from the frying pan into the fire, for Fez was the lion's den itself. The conquerors of Cordova came from Morocco. And there seems to be some evidence too that the Maimon family had to appear outwardly as Mohammedans. Be that as it may, Maimonides did not stay long in Fez.
In his modest lodging on the New-Market, Maimon had to face the suspicious scrutiny of the most dreaded of these detectives, who was puzzled and provoked by a belief he had seen him before, "evidently looking on me," as Maimon put it afterwards, "as a comet, which comes nearer to the earth the second time than the first, and so makes the danger more threatening."
Had he not changed his own name to Maimon to pattern himself after his Master, was not even now his oath under temptation: "I swear by the reverence which I owe my great teacher, Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, not to do this act?" But even Maimonides had not been able to allay his thirst. Maimonides was an Aristotelian, and the youth would fain drink at the fountain-head.
That the mixture was judicious was apparent from Deronda's finding in it something that he wanted namely, that wonderful piece of autobiography, the life of the Polish Jew, Salomon Maimon." The man in temporary charge of the shop was Mordecai.
The Arab Aristotelians, Al Kindi, Al Farabi, Avicenna and Averroes, while in the main disciples of the Stagirite, were none the less unable to steer clear of Neo-Platonic coloring of their master's doctrine, and they were the teachers of the Jewish Aristotelians, Abraham Ibn Daud, Moses ben Maimon, Levi ben Gerson.
For the God of Jacob will not accept any other than the worship of a willing heart." Maimon, Hilcoth, Miloth, Chap. 1st, Sec. 8th.
He would throw himself before the synagogue door, and either die there or be relieved. When his companion awoke and began to plan out the day's campaign, "No, I dissolve the partnership," said he firmly. "But how are you going to live, you good-for-nothing?" asked his astonished comrade, "you who cannot even beg." "God will help," Maimon said stolidly. "God help you!" said the beggar.
'Blessed be the name of the Lord for ever and ever! The Rabbi began the phrase, and the congregation caught it up in thunder. 'But hearken how. Last night at the Seder, as I opened the door for Elijah, there entered Maimon the Meshummad! 'Twas he quaffed Elijah's cup! There was a rumble of imprecations. 'A pretty Elijah! cried the Rabbi.
"The translation I drew up for my children will be read by his." By his, perhaps. But by my own? Maimon shivered with an apprehension of tragedy. Perhaps it was his Dissertation that Mendelssohn's children would read. He remembered suddenly that Mendelssohn had said no word to its crushing logic. As he was taking his leave, he put the question point-blank. "What have you to say to my arguments?"
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