yet someone lacking power extirpates from the depths of an extremely numerous, bigoted, and perverse people's spirits their very various, long-held, deep-seated, and completely ingrained customs and practices with little effort and in a short time. If you don't agree that this is quite wondrous, I shall inscribe your name in the book of Sophists.
The Second: The formation, or natural growth, of a state which resembles a collective personality — is slow. And only gradually can a state gain mastery over a former state since submission to the latter has become like second nature to it. In which case, the formation in a short time of a vast, and materially and morally powerful state, and its almost instantly gaining ascendancy over other, firmly established states shows that its customs and practices in both moral and material matters are necessarily extraordinary. If you can't see this, your name will be written in the register of the blind.
The Third: It is possible to dominate outwardly through force and oppression, but to conquer minds, and be loved by spirits, and command human nature, and permanently preserve one's rule over consciences is the distinguishing mark of the truth. If you are unaware of this quality, you are unacquainted with the truth.
The Fourth: Employing false or deceptive incentives or threats will have only a superficial effect and will block up paths to the intellect. In which case, to penetrate to the depths of the heart, excite the finest emotions, disclose the bud-like human potentialities, arouse latent, dormant abilities, fire the passion of the human essence, and reveal the value of human reason must be the mark of the rays of the truth. Yes, Muhammad's (UWBP) cleansing their hearts of such things as the live burial of girl-children, a concrete embodiment of hardness of heart, and his adorning them with such things as kindness to animals, to ants even, which is a flash of tender-heartedness, was such a mighty revolution — especially among those primitive peoples — that it has been endorsed as extraordinary by the perspicacious since it was not conformable with any natural laws. You too will affirm it if you have any understanding.