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 events highly favourable to Mohammed's enterprise.

After his flight from Mecca, the reception he experienced at Medina from a powerful party there, sufficiently accounts for his future celebrity. It has been remarked, "that the Religion of the Koran might have perished in its cradle, had not Medina embraced with faith and reverence the holy outcasts of Mecca ." The essential assistance derived from Christianity must be taken into calculation. In different ages, men of mighty minds have