[3] Muir and Weir, Life of Mohammed, ed. 1912, p. xlii. [↑]
[4] Muir and Weir, as cited, p. xxvi. [↑]
[5] Id. p. xxviii. Contrast the pronouncements of Palmer, Kuenen, and Nicholson, cited in the author’s History of Freethought, 3rd ed. i, 250. [↑]
[6] Josephus, Antiq. xx, 5, § 1; Bel. Jud., vii, 11; Dio Cassius, lxix; Orosius, vii, 12. [↑]
[7] E.g. the orthodox Ewald, Geschichte Christus’ und seiner Zeit, 3te Ausg. p. 31 note. [↑]
[8] “Stupidity” is ascribed to him by Blass (Entstehung, p. 8), who on his own principles has no right whatever to reject such a “tradition.” [↑]
[9] Compare with this avowal of an orthodox scholar, Mill’s assumption of the total absence of genius in Palestine apart from Jesus. [↑]