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ARTICLE I.—THE PRE-ISLAMIC ARABS.

ONCE in its history, the world came very near being overwhelmed by the Bedouin Arabs. Probably up to the day when the mounted missionaries of Islam first set out, no one looked for world conquerors from that sandy quarter any more than for snow storms, and yet there suddenly appeared from thence a terrible host, which threatened the nations with a subjugation infinitely more momentous than follows a mere military overthrow. The changes that such may effect are, in the great majority of cases, simply political, and therefore transient, but who can measure a religious conquest, or tell when its consequences will be felt no longer? During the life of one unfortunate generation, Islamism actually accomplished the conquest of Asia and Africa, from the borders of China and the Malay peninsula, to the straits of Gibraltar; and gained a foothold in Europe, which seemed, in all likelihood, but a short prelude to making French, English, and Germans bow towards Mecca, and go with shaven heads and simple night-shirts, on pilgrimages to kiss the Caaba. The