Note 159 — Chapter VIII · FREETHOUGHT UNDER ISLAM1
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In time, however, a consciousness of the vital hostility of his doctrine to current creeds, and of the danger he consequently ran, made him, like so many of his later disciples, anxious to preserve priestly favour. As regards religion he was more complaisant than Abubacer, pronouncing Mohammedanism the most perfect of all popular systems,159 and preaching a patriotic conformity on that score to philosophic students.