miracle; or rather it was not the miracle of a man but
that of reason. The idea of the unity of God pro-
claimed amidst the exhaustion of fabulous theoge-
nies, was in itself such a miracle that upon its utter-
ance from his lips it destroyed all the ancient
temples of idols and set on fire one-third of the
world. His life, his meditations, his heroic revilings
against the superstitions of his country, and his bold-
ness in defying the furies of idolatory; his firmness
in enduring them for fifteen years at Mecca, his ac-
ceptance of the role of public scom and almost of be-
ing a victim of his fellow-countrymen: all these and,
finally his incessant preaching, his wars against
odds, his faith in his success and his superhuman se-
curity in inisfortune, his forbearance in victory, his
ambition which was entirely devoted to one idea and
in no manner striving for an empire; his endless
prayer, his mystic conversations with God, his death
and his triumph after death ; all these attest not to an
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