from whose teaching he had borrowed all that was good in his own. Having now
arrived at supreme power he could afford to cast aside all that had helped him
on his way, and all this he now brought into subjection to himself.1
It cannot be maintained, though it has been said, that Islam was or is
propagated by peaceful methods alone.2 It is admitted that such has
sometimes been the case, and also that some forms of Christianity have been
propagated by force; but the real point is, that the employment of force is
neither