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 peaceably.
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On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History, 1841
Thomas Carlyle Citations
Thomas Carlyle: Citations en anglais
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), The Present Time (February 1, 1850)