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tiat numerous dissertations have been warmly commended , and industriously circulated throughout tbe empire , the object of which is , to show the beneficial influence , that the enterprise of Mahomet might have had upon the world , if accidental obstacles had not
counteracted its natural tendency Tie following was the prize question of the Institute for the year 1809 . — " To examine what was , minister shall undergo the penalty provided for sedition .
«» Any minister of worship , who , in my pastoral instructions couched under aay form whatever , shall take upon himielf ( sesera ingere ) to criticise or censure either the government or any act of public authority , shall undergo the penalty of banishment , and a still heavier infliction if his writings be of a seditious tendency .
H Any minister of worship who shall hold a correspondence with a foreign court or power , upon any religious matters or questions , without having first apprised thereof the minister of the Emperor charged with the
superintendence of public worship , and without hating first obtained his sanction , shall , for this act alone , be punished by a fine , and by an imprisonment of not morethaii two years , and not less than two months .
"If the above-mentioned correspondence be accompanied or followed by any other act , contrary to the former dispositions of a law , or a decree of the Emperor , the culprit shall undergo the Penalty of banishment , &c . J > The two Jast clauses allude particularly to the Mercourse between the French clergy « wlthe Pope .
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during the three first ages of the Hegira , the influence of Mahometanism over the intellect , the manners , and the government of the nations among whom it was established . ' To institute com *
pa . risons unfavourable to the christian system , appears to have been the purport of nearly all the essays , to which this question gave
birth . We know not whether it be the intention of Buonaparte to propagate the Koran by the sword , but we shrewdly suspect f that he is somewhat inclined to
follow the example of Mahomet ; to have a revelation of his own ; and to declare himself , not only the master , but the prophet of the west . The Christian doctrine is
opposed to the spirit of war and conquest , and may , therefore , be proscribed , to give way to another more congenial to the temper and views of a military
despotism ., Upon the model of the Koran , there may be easily framed a code of superstition exempt from the political imperfections of the original , and still more efficaciously calculated to diffuse the martial
spirit , to inflame the thirst of conquest , and to produce among the victorious troops of the empire , a devotion to their leaders , of that blind and fanatical character , which contributed so materially to ti \ e triumphs of Islamism .
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rf Buonaparte ' s Religious Projects . SSI
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1811, page 331, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2417/page/11/
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