The most learned and accomplished divines, the most
distinguished scholars, have diligently studied those branches of knowledge the
root and origin of which were the Greek philosophers such as Aristotle and the
rest, and have regarded the acquisition from the Greek texts of sciences such
as medicine, and branches of mathematics including algebra and arithmetic, as a most
valuable achievement. Every one of the eminent divines both studies and teaches
the science of logic, although they consider its founder to have been a Sabean.
Most of them have insisted that if a scholar has thoroughly mastered a variety
of sciences but is not well grounded in logic, his opinions, deductions and
conclusions cannot safely be relied upon. (‘Abdu’l-Baha, ‘The Secret of Divine
Civilization’)
