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59upon as one of the greatest personalities of Islam. This sceptic of powerful ability anticipated Descartes (1) in his philosophical method; and, "seven hundred years before Hume cut the bond of causality with the edge of his dialectic"(2). He was the first to write a systematic refutation of philosophy, and completely to, annihilate that dread of intellectualism which had characterised the orthodox. It was chiefly his, influence that made men study dogma and metaphysics together, and eventually led to a system of education which produced such men as Shahrastani, Al-Razi and Al-Ishraqi. The following passage indicates his attitude as a thinker: "From my childhood I was inclined to think out things for myself. The result of this attitude was that I revolted against authority; and all the beliefs that had fixed themselves in my mind from childhood lost their original importance. I thought that such beliefs based on mere authority were equally entertained by Jews, Christians, and followers of other religions. Real knowledge must eradicate all doubt. For instance, it is self-evident that ten is greater than three. If a person, however, endeavours to prove the contrary by an appeal to his power of turning a stick into a snake, the performance would indeed be wonderful, though it cannot touch the certainty of 1 "If Al-Ghazali's work on the Revivication of the sciences of religion has so remarkable a resemblance to the Discourse sur la methode of Descartes, that had any translation of it existed in the days of Descartes everyone would have cried against the plagiarism-" (Lewes's History of Philosophy: Vol. II, p. 50). 2. Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 20, p. 103.
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