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Considermg the voluptuous dispoahion of the people of those countries, he allowed poBga- my to his followers ; but strictly prohibited the pse of wine, and all intoxicating liquors, to which the people of that climate had no very strong pro* pensity, and of which they could more contented* ly suffer the privation. Mahomet is said to have adopted this prohibition of the use of wine from his experience of the dangerous consequences of intoidcation, having, on a certain occasion, been, surprised b...y the enemy, and in imminent danger of bdng cut off with his little troop, when his foU lowers had been indulging too freely in the use * of wine. Whether this circumstance be trucj and the immediate motive to his prohibition of the use of inebriating liquors, or not, it seems that Mahomet deemed intoxication a vice which de- graded human nature, and habits of drunkenness as incompatible with a capacity for great under- takings ; and for this reason resolved, by takmg away the temptation, to prevent the introduction of so dangerous a vice among his followers.
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Considermg the voluptuous dispoahion of the people of those countries, he allowed poBga- my to his followers ; but strictly prohibited the pse of wine, and all intoxicating liquors, to which the people of that climate had no very strong pro* pensity, and of which they could more contented* ly suffer the privation. Mahomet is said to have adopted this prohibition of the use of wine from his experience of the dangerous consequences of intoidcation, having, on a certain occasion, been, surprised b...y the enemy, and in imminent danger of bdng cut off with his little troop, when his foU lowers had been indulging too freely in the use * of wine. Whether this circumstance be trucj and the immediate motive to his prohibition of the use of inebriating liquors, or not, it seems that Mahomet deemed intoxication a vice which de- graded human nature, and habits of drunkenness as incompatible with a capacity for great under- takings ; and for this reason resolved, by takmg away the temptation, to prevent the introduction of so dangerous a vice among his followers.
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