[159]. See Albo, Ikkarim, Part I, chap. 1.
[160]. See his Introduction to the Sepher Hammitzvoth.
[161]. I remarked on this point years ago in “Past and Future.” [See Selected Essays by Ahad Ha’am, p. 87.]
[163]. See the Treatise on Resurrection.
[164]. Luzzatto (ubi supra) seems to suspect that Maimonides’ whole treatment of resurrection was insincere, and that he was deliberately throwing dust in the reader’s eyes, in order to conceal his heresy. But this suspicion is absurd: Maimonides was a man who was not afraid openly to reject even the immortality of the soul, and to recast all the fundamental beliefs of Judaism. Any unbiassed reader of the treatise must realise that Maimonides defends resurrection with perfect sincerity, but that he is unable to find the real grounds of his own conviction, because he looks for them in his reason and not in his feelings.
[165]. Commentary on the Mishnah, Aboth, chap. i. 17.
[166]. See his letters to Joseph ben Gabar, to the community of Lunel, and to R. Samuel Ibn Tibbon (Collected Responses of Maimonides (Leipsic), Part II., pp. 16, 27, 44).
[167]. Jewish Quarterly Review, January, 1897, p. 187.
[168]. Notes of this kind are found right through the book (see e.g. pp. 498-503, 691-3, and many other places); and it is unfair of some Jewish critics to have passed over this fact in silence, and to have described the book as though it were throughout simply an attack on Judaism.