Word: mohammedans
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most learned and distinguished men of their respective nations. The masses of men soon followed their leadership for the majority of men need but to have a new theory cleverly presented to them to become its strenuous supporters. The three great monotheistic religions are the Jewish, Christian and Mohammedan. It is true that at first the Jewish religion was polytheistic but little by little all the lesser gods lost their devotees and finally after the Jews came back fram their Babylonian captivity in the sixth century B. C., the worship of Jehovah alone was firmly established...
Professor Toy then spoke of the intense nationality of Jewish life, of the difference which existed between the Jewish and Mohammedan, the Mohammedan and Christian religions. In conclusion he said that that Monotheism has always been symbolical of advancing thought and high conceptions of the deity, for it has for its fundamental truth that there...