John William Draper

The Koran abounds in excellent moral suggestions and precepts; its composition is so fragmentary that we can not turn to a single page without finding maxims of which all men must approve. This fragmentary construction yields texts, and …

Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia, the man who, of all others, has exercised the greatest influence upon the human race—Mohammed… To be the religious head of many empires, to guide the daily …

Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.