Moses or Zoroaster, which do you esteem as the greater?
Though Zoroaster did not claim for his doctrines so high a source as Moses, I believe he was much more spiritual than the great Hebrew, and consequently had his inspiration from a very high if not the highest source. Both had their times of preparation for the mission of their lives—the one as a Median shepherd, the other in solitary seclusion, shut out from contact with the world.
I do not mean to say that Zoroaster was a better or more learned man than Moses. He was not. He had only the training, which could be got from the instructions of a poor brother of the Magi, while Moses was educated as a prince in Egypt, the fountain of knowledge, but with all his acquirements in the wisdom of Egypt, he deigned to quote from the records of Chaldea.
His connection by marriage, also, afforded him special opportunities of storing his mind with the ancient records and traditions of his adopted country.

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