Excerpt from The Life of Mohammad: From Original Sources
It seems to be the first duty of a historian to investigate the causes of great revolutions; for an event which happens at any other, but its due season, is a miracle: we should consider it as a wonder, if the sun should rise one second before, or after its appointed hour; or if any one were to accomplish, in his childhood, what is expected of him in his riper age. In like manner, had the illiterate prophet produced the revolutions which he headed, the ontological argument for his faith, which he constantly urged, would be irrefutable: we should be obliged to acknowledge his doctrine as absolute truth, because it was victorious. In investigating, however, the origin of that extraordinary phenomenon, the victory of a false religion, we must separate the causes of its rise in Arabia from those of its propagation beyond the limits of that country. The former we find in the awaking of healthy minds from the dreams of the ancient world to the knowledge of one immaterial God.
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