Thomas Carlyle

L'on a beaucoup écrit sur la façon dont Mahomet propagea sa religion par le sabre.Il y a, sans doute, beaucoup d'honnêteté de la part des chrétiens à se vanter d'avoir, eux, propagé leur religion pacifiquement.

  • (en) Much has been said of Mahomet's propagating his Religion by the sword. It is no doubt far nobler what we have to boast of the Christian Religion, that it propagated itself peacebly.


  • On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History (1841), Thomas Carlyle (trad. Wikiquote), éd. Wiley & Halsted, 1859, The Hero as a Prophet (Mahomet), p. 55