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About the Book:-The Religion of the Parsis, notwithstanding the puerilities and absurdities with which it is now associated, is substantially the same in its general principles at the present day, that it was in the ages of antiquity. As that of the united hosts of Medas and Persians, who were providentially instrumental in the destruction of the mightly power of Babylon and the deliverance of the Jews, the favoured despositaries of divine knowledge during the general apostasy of the world from God, who in the noon-day splender of their reign, ruled over the larger portion of the Greater and Lesser Asia-who attempted to crush the infant liberties of Europe in the Grecian States,-who carried their victorious arms to the north of Africa, and usurped for a season the rule of the Pharaohs in the land of Egypt.