" Over one hundred and sixty million are adherents of the
Koran.

In an objective analysis, excluding the emotional factors of religious
bias, Mohammed would as unquestionably be considered a victim of mental
disturbances as an individual living in our own day and manifesting the
same symptoms.

Mohammed was the subject of illusions, hallucinations, and delusions. He
had suicidal tendencies, and he had alternating periods of exhilaration
and depression. To simply assert that he was an epileptic does not
explain these symptoms. For epileptics cannot throw a fit at will.
However, we know that ten per cent of epileptics develop mental
diseases, no particular psychosis but a loss of mental and moral sense.

There are two types of individuals who can produce seizures such as
Mohammed was wont to evoke at will. One type is the hysterical, and the
other is that degraded individual who for the sake of collecting alms
will place a piece of soap in his mouth, enter a crowded street, fall
to the ground, and proceed to foam at the mouth and twist and contort
himself as an epileptic does. That is the charlatan, the faker, and that
brings us to the second aspect of his (Mohammed's) character.

"Outside of Arabia, Paganism was in general disrepute. The dissolute and
declining Romans were cracking lewd jokes in the very faces of their
gods, the myriad followers of Confucius, Buddha and Zoroaster were
either too remote or too helpless to matter in one way or another.
Talmudic Judaism and Oriental Christianity despised idolatry and
worshipped the same Jehovah, even though they disputed with each other,
and indeed, among themselves, concerning the various attributes, amorous
pursuits, and lineal descendants of the Godhead. Now, to one who chose
to regard himself as a prophet, Monotheism had distinct advantages over
Polytheism." (_Mohammed--R. F. Dibble._)

In the first place, it was rather confusing to attempt to obey the
behests of conflicting deities; in the second place, the different
prophets of Jehovah in Judaism and Christendom had, so far as Mohammed
knew, been uniformly successful, for he was familiar with the glorious
history of Abraham, Moses, and David, and he always held to the perverse
conception that Jesus was not crucified. However deep in the dumps
prophets may have been on occasion, they have invariably believed one
thing: victory for their particular cause would inevitably come. Neither
an unbroken series of worldly