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AS TO TRADITIONAL AUTHORITY
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" for the spiritual life also a new period.1
Already Wâckidi had
" begun to work up into shape the mass of his traditionary stores,
" and busy himself in the department of scholastic industry. In
" the Schools one could as little affect now the material of tradition,
" or alter its nature, as attempt to change the organism of the new
" born child. However arbitrary might be the invention of the
" Mirâj (Mahomet's heavenly journey), and other fabrications of
" the first century, they still formed in this way the positive element
" and soul of religious, political, and social life. The Schools, as
" always, confined their exertions to collecting, comparing,
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