The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-03-05


creative art. quote again from Goethe
The great ones Of the world have taken earth o. ours
duty TGs smallest ee 81 rs and already S
none may touch meddle whit offices and civic clnng.
ScaSons usr oonSae Than to sew q ads
PRINCES Of this world hold The rivers The highways The heavens
passes through Them may not embrace Win 10Y we
Sng S yRg b sH Ic se Or G iS G
rendered indispensable? can promise yon, Il you would
sne u s az % and o
10 she bears the olive rather than the sword
her hvoes which. without offence yours BE- il said are
genuine pears which ahe brings up from the depths Of the
ocean by the hands of her unweaued servants.
But time adnonishes close. have but glanced at
the subject Like Of those grand Cathetas 50 gigantic
in EXTENT so minute in the graceful finish of its Details 1t
not for one mind 10 complete the harmonious whole have
but laid the foundation let those who shall follow me year
after year. carry the noble edice which shall be Mt tenn
Pile for the worship of American Industry
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MAHoMEr AND HIS SUccEssoRs-By WASH
iagto1, Igviag--A beautiful and cheap edition Of
this most delightful writer is now in course of pub
LEGATION. Many Of his books were out Of print-he
has collected them and they are published under his
supervision 1t is a matter of regret that he has
spent so many of his years in England writing
sketches Of English life, when his own country so
much needed him. His time spent in Spain, how
ever, was more productive. His Life of Columbus,
and History OF the Moors of Spain, are perma-
nent additions to our literature. His last work
was also prepared during his residence in Spain.
| The first volume is devoted to the life OF Mahomet
and an explanation of the Koran We are glad to
| find him defending Mahomet from the charge Of
imposture. He does not place him in the high rank
given him by Carlyle in Heroes and Hero-wor-
| Ship " If we are far from considering Mahomet
| the gross and impious impostor that some have
represented him, so also we ndisposed to give
him credit for vast forecast and for that deeply con-
certed scheme of universal conquest which has been
/ ascribed to him. He was undoubtedly man of
great genius and suggestive imagination, but it
appears to us that he was in great degree the
creature ofimpulse and excitement, and very much
at the mercy of circumstances"
When he hung over the death-bed OF his infant
son Ibrahim, resignation to the will of God was
exhibited in his conduct under this keenest OF
Affections and the hope of soon reoining his child
/ in paradise was his consolation. When he followed
him to the grave he invoked his spirit in the awful
examination of the tomb to hold fast to the founda-
tons of the faith, the unity of God, and his own
4 mission as prophet. Even in his own dying hour,
when there could be no longer worldly motive for
deceit he still breathed the same religious devo-
ton, and the same belief in his apostolic mission.
The last words that trembled on his lips calculated
a trust of entering into blissfu companionship
with the prophets who had gone before him.
"Iti difficult to reconcile such ardent, persever-
ing piety, with an incessant system oil blasphemous
| lmposture nor such pure and elevated and beng
nant precepts as are contained in the Koran, with
a mind haunted by ignobe passions and devoted
to the groyeling interests of mere mortality; and
we find no other satisfactory mode OF solving the
enigma of his character and conduct, than by sup
posing that the ray OF mental halucination which
flashed upon his enthusiastic spirit during his reli
| he oF
Hara, continued more or less to bewilder him with
a species of monomana to the end of his career
and that he died in the deusive belief OF his mission
as prophet"
His analysis of the Koran will be read with in
terest for it is a heavy book, and but few genera
readers ever wade through it. Irving gives al
E eptome which sufficiently lays open its scope ant
style. Some of the precepts which it inculcates We
! commend to the practice of Christians.
Most of the benignant precepts Of our Saviour
5 were incorporated in the Koran. Frequent aims
giving was enjoined as an imperative duty, and th'
immuable law Of right and wrong Do untt
another, as thou wouldst he should do unto thee,
was given for the moral conduct of the faithful.
Deal not unjustly with others, says the Koran
and ye shall not be dealt with unjustly. If there
be any debtor under difficulty Of paying his debt
let his creditor wait until it be easy for him to do it
but if he remit it in aims it will be better for him.
"Mahomet ineucated a noble fairness and sin
E certy in dealing. Oh, merchants would he say
fasehood anddeception apt to prevail in traffic
purify it therefore with aims give something II
charity as an atonement; for God is incensed b!
deceit in dealing, but charity appeases his anger
: : He who sells defective thing, conceaGng its de
feet, will provoke the anger OF God and the curse
i of the angels.
7 "Take not advantage of the necessities fanothe
! to buy things at sacrifice rather relieve his IN
# digence.
n Feed the hungry; visit the sick, and free til
/ captive if confined unjustly.
$ ~ Look not scornfully upon thy fellow man
}, neither walk the earth with insoence for Go
n oveh not the arrogant and vainglorious. Be mode
IS rate in thy pace and speak with moderate tone
for the most ungraeful of all voices, is the voice q
asses
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