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 and Tryphon! It would be only lost time to expend more words on the subject. Mohammed too, according to his disciples, prophesied, but the few alleged predictions scarcely deserve serious notice, viz. the overthrow of the Koreish at Bedr ; the tradition of his foretelling the battle of the ditch ; and where God promises that such as believe and do good works shall succeed the unbelievers in the earth, and that he will establish their religion ; there is only a little policy and management in all this, as also in the prediction of the defeat and subsequent success of the Greeks ; to pass over the variety of reading and great obscurity in the passage, natural sagacity might suggest such a conclusion to any person from the political state of the Persians at the time.

The cause of Islamism derives no support